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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Gillray, 1796.
Date: 7 May 1796Reference: 16602i
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i
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A French physician on his rounds with his entourage. Etching by J. Caldwell, 1771, after M. Brandoin.
Brandoin, Michel Vincent, 1733-1807.Date: Published as the Act directs 20 October 1771Reference: 10943i- Pictures
A disgruntled physician wearing a legal wig and gown(?). Etching, 1771.
Date: Pubd. according to Act of Parlt. 3 October 1771Reference: 10945iPart of: 24 caricatures by several ladies gentlemen artists
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A deputation of dissolute surgeons to the Lord Chancellor. Coloured etching by G.M. Woodward, 1797.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 7 August 1797Reference: 10780i
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A grumpy physician taking the pulse of an alarmed man. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11220i
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Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after Robert Dighton.
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814.Date: Published as the Act directs 4 June 1793Reference: 10771i- Pictures
Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon (?).
Nixon, John, -1818.Date: 2 December 1799Reference: 11637i
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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
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Hordes of infirm people with crutches and wheelchairs making their way down the hill to Bath from the Royal Crescent. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 11910iPart of: Tegg's caricatures- Books
Pretty gentlemen : macaroni men and the eighteenth-century fashion world / Peter McNeil.
McNeil, Peter, 1966-Date: 2018
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Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: Publish'd as the Act directs May 12, 1800Reference: 10769iPart of: Hogarthian Novelist
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An angry doctor in night clothes shouting at an alarmed man. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1774, after H. Wigstead.
Wigstead, Henry, -1793.Date: 8 June 1774Reference: 11206i
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A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.
Date: 1 October 1784Reference: 10974i
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A man sits outside a window to smoke and drink, his servant waits behind him. Stipple engraving by Sailliar, mid-18th century, after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Reference: 24840i
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William Pitt the younger consults the doctor John Bull on his failing health. Coloured aquatint, 1798.
Date: 1798Reference: 12186i
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A obstetrician dressed in a grand manner, wearing a sword and carrying a tall cane. Etching, 1773.
Date: Pub accord to Act. Oct.r 21 1773Reference: 10944i
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Dr. John Burges, on tiptoe outside a building in Warwick Lane. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1795.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 3 July 1795Reference: 10931i
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A doctor prescribing continuation of treatment to his reluctant patient. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1799, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 10 September 1799Reference: 11061iPart of: Countrey characters
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Three women huddle eagerly around a medicine bottle; perhaps connected with pregnancy. Mezzotint by T. Scratchley, 1771.
Date: Pub. according to Act of Parl. 24 March 1771Reference: 10778i
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Four Georgian gentlemen sit in their club seriously engaged in smoking. Engraving with stipple by H. Bunbury, 1794.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 15 March 1794Reference: 25446i
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A seated man smoking with a tankard on the table by his side. Procees print after P. Rajon, 1872, after J.L. Meissonier, 1858.
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891.Date: 1872Reference: 24856i
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A woman dying in the arms of her family, an unhappy doctor leaves the room realising that it is his final payment. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1786.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 April 1786Reference: 11214i
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A woman withdrawing her foot in outrage from the care of a corn-cutter who has pretensions to be called a chiropodist. Coloured engraving, 1793.
Date: 20 November 1793Reference: 10973i
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A doctor reprimanding an obese patient for not taking his medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1797.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 20 December 1797Reference: 11056i