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A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 10741i
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A man, decrepit with gout, helpless in his own home. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10510i
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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 doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
Collings, Samuel.Date: 1803Reference: 586040i
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An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
Reference: 10970i
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A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Reference: 16580i
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Transplanting of teeth.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1787Reference: 16595i
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A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 16957i
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A gouty man startled by death; represented as a skeletal figure wielding an arrow. Mezzotint, 1794.
Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 10737i
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A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
Reference: 17440i
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An episode in Samuel Foote's play The devil upon two sticks: the cobbler Emmanuel Last is examined for entry as a licentiate to the Royal College of Physicians by Dr Hellebore, the president of the college. Mezzotint by J. Finlayson after J. Zoffany, 1769.
Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810.Date: Published Novr. 30th 1769Reference: 22215i
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An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Date: [26 February 1822]Reference: 11906i
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A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: 1826Reference: 665676i
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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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Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
Desrais, Claude Louis, 1746-1816.Reference: 17918i
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A gouty man surrounded by horse-riding accoutrements. Coloured engraving by Maddox after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Reference: 10734i
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A male-midwife suggestively examines an attractive pregnant woman, her disgruntled husband is led out of the room by a servant. Line engraving, 1773.
Date: 17Reference: 16964i
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Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.
Reference: 21782i
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Two angry medical practitioners arguing about opposing methods in front of a gouty (?) patient. Coloured engraving, 1787.
Date: 1 August 1787Reference: 20875i
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A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Reference: 10743i
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Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
Clint, George, 1770-1854Date: 16 March 1821Reference: 22007i
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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 tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
Reference: 16529i
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A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 12 February 1819Reference: 10742i
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Transplanting of teeth.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1787Reference: 16596i