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<p>The knotted handkerchief reminds people that "no one should cough or sneeze without putting his handkerchief over his mouth and nose." (p. 3 of the leaflet). A second sketch by Fougasse is reproduced on the back cover: it shows a man sneezing violently into a handkerchief</p>

1 print : process print, printed in colours ; sheet 17.8 x 11.5 cm

A knotted handkerchief suffering from a cold. Colour process print after Fougasse, 194-.

Tregears flights of humor

A sick man with a cold. Coloured lithograph, 1833.

<p>Bears dialogue: '"Gracious heavens, doctor! Do you mean to tell me that I must do without stimulants altogether?" "Certainly. If by any chance you should feel a sinking between your meals, I don't object to a- to a-" "Yes! - Yes! -" "Wineglassful of cold water, you know!"'</p>

1 print : wood engraving ; border 14.7 x 17.9 cm

A patient dismayed at his doctor's advice not to drink any alcohol while recovering from a cold. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 12.6 x 10.2 cm

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A knotted handkerchief suffering from a cold. Colour process print after Fougasse, 194-.

A sick man with a cold. Coloured lithograph, 1833.

A patient dismayed at his doctor's advice not to drink any alcohol while recovering from a cold. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.

A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.

Cold-catching, cold-preventing, cold-curing / John Henry Clarke.

A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.

Bovril: advertisement. Lithograph.

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A knotted handkerchief suffering from a cold. Colour process print after Fougasse, 194-.

A sick man with a cold. Coloured lithograph, 1833.

A patient dismayed at his doctor's advice not to drink any alcohol while recovering from a cold. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.

A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.

Cold-catching, cold-preventing, cold-curing / John Henry Clarke.

A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.

Bovril: advertisement. Lithograph.

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