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Professor Oliver Wrong
Professor Oliver Wrong (1925-2012)Date: 1946 - 2016Reference: PP/WRO- Videos
NHS : The perfect storm. A Panorama special.
Date: 2015- Pictures
A doctor taking the pulse of his patient - convinced that his prescription of a clyster has been successful - unaware that she has eaten the clyster-pipe. Coloured etching by G. Grinagain, 1804.
Grinagain, Giles, active 1804.Date: 2 January 1804Reference: 11831i- Books
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A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- Pictures
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A patient asking her doctor his political leanings, he retorts that it varies - depending on who he is treating. Wood engraving after A.T. Smith.
Smith, Albert Talbot, 1877-Reference: 15665i- Books
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On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history : including the substances of a discourse on that subject, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the evening of Friday, April 26, 1861 / by Professor Owen.
Date: 1862- Pictures
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A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
Date: 18 April 1800Reference: 11639i- Pictures
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A doctor reassuring a patient that he can cure him. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945.Date: 1898Reference: 14315i- Pictures
A nonchalant doctor dancing a jig amidst unhappy patients in a decrepit hospital ward. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1813.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 25 June 1813Reference: 11629i- Pictures
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A man very ill in bed, his doctor recommends sending for his wife; the patient sees this as extreme action. Wood engraving, 1873.
Date: 1873Reference: 13809i- Pictures
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A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11201iPart of: G.T.B.s- Pictures
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A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1880Reference: 13824i- Pictures
A fashionable doctor visiting a fashionable lady patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1869.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1869Reference: 15688i- Pictures
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A man surrounded by a feast while professing to have no appetite, his doctor observing how yellow he and his surroundings appear; suggesting the man's jaundiced view of life. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11200iPart of: G.T.B.s- Pictures
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A doctor trying to convince an obese lady that her over-eating problems are psychologically based. Wood engraving by EH, 1894.
H., E., active 1894.Date: 1894Reference: 14303i- Pictures
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A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 11 February 1865Reference: 13802i- Pictures
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A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
Date: 4 June 1806Reference: 16623i- Pictures
A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1863Reference: 13800i- Books
Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927) : physician and physiologist - a short biography / by Jens H. Henriksen.
Henriksen, Jens H.Date: 2000- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]- Pictures
Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Reference: 11631i- Books
George III's illnesses and his doctors : a study in early psychiatry / Michael Ramscar.
Ramscar, MichaelDate: 2023- Pictures
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A doctor diagnosing a cat with mumps and prescribing a remedy. Wash drawing, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 11744i- Pictures
N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: [26 February 1811]Reference: 16635i- Pictures
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A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.
Roberts, Henry Benjamin, 1831-1915.Date: [1868]Reference: 21864i