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A physician advising a man not to be depressed by his illness. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.

A physician examining the chest of a thin, perhaps tuberculous boy, in the presence of the latter's mother. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945.

Date: 1920

A physician prescribing entertainment as a cure for a young woman's nervous illness. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-E. Jacque.

Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894.

Physicians disputing while the patient suffers. Oil painting after (?) Johann Geyer.

Geyer, Johann, 1807-1875.

Physician and patient

A hypochondriac tells her doctor that she has a pain in her heart whilst clutching the wrong side of her chest. Reproduction of a drawing after Beauchamp, 1932.

Beauchamp, active 1927.

Date: 1932

A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.

Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.

Date: 1874

A physician looks at the coffin of a deceased patient and says "I cured him too". Watercolour, ca. 1752/1755.

Gross, Christian G..

Date: [1752/1755]

A patient being advised by a doctor not to drink beer in the morning, he retorts by saying there was no brandy available. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1876.

Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.

Date: 1876

A doctor diagnosing an ill young man as suffering from lovesickness. Wood engraving by A. Hopkins, 1898.

Hopkins, Arthur, fl 1898.

Date: 1898

A physician examining the chest of a thin, perhaps tuberculous, boy, in the presence of the latter's mother. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945.

Date: 1920

Doctors disputing, the patient is ignored. Etching by D.N. Chodowiecki, 1781.

Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.

Date: [1781]

An anxious patient tells his doctor that he is worried because he has started to discuss cricket with himself. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1934.

Thomas, Bert, 1883-1966.

Date: 1934

Large fees and how to get them : a book for the private use of physicians

Harmon, Albert V.

Date: [1911], ©1911

A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.

A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.

Anglo-Norman physician and patient.

Physician and patient, 13th Century

Doctor and patient

Mitchell, S. Weir 1829-1914.

Date: 1888, ©1887

A doctor advising a patient that a sea voyage is what he needs to cure him, the patient retorts that he has just returned from one. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.

A doctor examining a thermometer after taking the temperature of an elderly golfing fanatic. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1907.

Townsend, F. H. 1868-1920.

Date: 1907

A Georgian physician is attending a sick girl; father in the background, mother seated in an armchair in the foreground. Photogravure after G.S. Knowles, 1906.

Knowles, George Sheridan, 1863-1931.

Date: 1906

A physician watching over a sick child. Photogravure by Goupil, 1893, after L. Fildes.

Samuel Luke Fildes

Advice for men on treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1949.

Games, Abram, 1914-1996.

Date: [1949]

A patient trying to convince his unsympathetic doctor that a sprained neck is a worse condition than a broken one. Wood engraving by G. King, 1912.

Date: 1912

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