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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Date: Published according to Act of Parliament A.D. 1768Reference: 643336i- Pictures
Isaac Swainson promoting his 'Velnos syrup', facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 29 November 1789Reference: 10779i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor proudly presenting his wares to a small group of people. Line engraving by J. van de Velde after W. Buytewech.
Buytewech, Willem Pietersz, 1591 or 1592-1624.Reference: 20470i- Pictures
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A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people.. Pen drawing by B. Pinelli, 1821.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Reference: 20993i- Pictures
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Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 2d. January 1774Reference: 46577i- Pictures
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The melancholy temperament: an anxious woman clasps her hands as an agitated man lies on the ground. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 26884i- Pictures
A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1821Reference: 20995i- Pictures
A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 20990i- Pictures
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A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 546400i- Pictures
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
Reference: 20647i- Pictures
A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 20598i- Pictures
Glysterpipe Fillpacket, Peregrino Mountebanko and Timothy Mouth: three dwarfs as itinerant medicine vendors selling their wares. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 20659i- Pictures
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A public square in a French port, in which a medicine vendor cries up his wares to an audience of traders and strollers. Coloured aquatint by J. Léveillé, 1785, after A. Borel.
Borel, Antoine, 1743-1810.Date: [1785]Reference: 811674i- Pictures
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Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Date: 1 April 1792Reference: 20579i- Pictures
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i- Pictures
Peking, Pechili province, China: a travelling chiropodist. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19708i- Pictures
Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1790Reference: 18122i- Pictures
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A Saadi, or Egyptian shaman using snakes and incantations to cure a sick man. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1806, after W.M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: April 1806Reference: 21448i- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling a medicine to a man whose son has a poorly arm. Engraving by P. da Colle after N. Cavalli after F. Maggiotto.
Maggiotto, Francesco, 1750-1805.Reference: 20878i- Pictures
William Pitt the younger as an obstetrician and medicine vendor, accompanied by Henry Dundas as his assistant, disputing with Napoleon Bonaparte their respective medicinal remedies for the delivery of Europe. Etching after C. Ansell (?), 1800.
Ansell, Charles, approximately 1752-Date: [1800]Reference: 663331i- Pictures
An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by or after B. van den Bossche or G. Thomas.
Bossche, Balthasar van den, 1681-1715.Reference: 45112i- Pictures
Eight beggars or ruined investors lamenting their losses in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Engraving, 1720, after P. Quast.
Quast, Pieter Jansz., 1606-1647.Date: [1720?]Reference: 816094iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
Date: According to Act of Parliamt. 1748Reference: 20666i- Pictures
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A travelling healer demonstrating the extraction of a tooth from the mouth of a woman patient, before a crowd of onlookers. Etching attributed to Cornelis de Wael.
Wael, Cornelis de, 1592-1667.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 44095i- Pictures
Crowds of people are gathered for a fete, a stage has been set up and actors are performing a play. Engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1777, after M. Schoevaerdts.
Schoevaerdts, Mathys, approximately 1665-1694 or 1723.Date: 1777Reference: 35095i