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Dialogue includes: "Your husband doesn't seem so well." " No, sir. It's taking the medicine twice a day after meals. Two meals a day don't seem to suit him, him being used to four."

1 photomechanical reproduction ; border 13.5 x 18 cm

A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.

Dialogue includes: Doctor. "Well, Matthew, did you take those pills I sent you yesterday?" Patient. "Yes, doctor; but couldn't 'e do 'em up in something different? They little boxes be terrible hard to swallow!"

1 print : wood engraving ; border 15.2 x 18 cm

A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.

Dialogue includes: Nurse Hope: "No, doctor, he won't have that hot-water bottle anywhere near him since he heard his rubber shares had gone down"

1 photomechanical reproduction ; border 25.9 x 18.6 cm

An ill man throwing a tantrum and a hot-water bottle after hearing his rubber shares have gone down. Process print after S. Wood, 1912.

Dialogue includes: Imperial patient: "Take away your pills and potions. What I want is a victory."

The Kaiser angrily throwing his medicines on to the floor and shouting at his physicians that he needs a victory not tablets. Pen drawing by J.H. Dowd, 1914.

The shelves in the surgery are full of bottles labelled: "modestie", "honnestete", humilite", "obeissance" etc., and many more 'good ' qualities. A practitioner pours a liquid entitled: "sagesse" into the mouth of a patient who sits on a commode excreting fools. The other practitioner holds another patient on a wooden stretcher while his head is placed in a furnace from which all follies, vices and fantasies are being expelled

A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.

Dialogue includes: Patient. "I know you try to help me, doctor; but my 'usband ses that if I won a prize in the Irish sweep it would do me more good than anything you can do."

1 print : line block ; border 19 x 11.9 cm

A patient telling her doctor that if she won a sweepstake it would do her more good than all his medication. Line block after C. Graves, 1932.

1 print : wood engraving ; border 12.5 x 18.1 cm

A doctor angry with his patient for trying quack medicine as well as his own prescription. Wood engraving by H.M. Brock, 1909.

Dialogue includes: Patent medicine (to the author of the Insurance Bill). "Never mind, dear fellow, I'll stand by you - to the death!"
On the desk in front of Lloyd George is a paper entitled: "National Insurance Bill", through a window a banner reads: "Doctors demand a living wage." The 'medicine bottle-figure' is covered with various inscriptions which read: "Dr. Dulcamara's magic cure-all the only infallible remedy for ..." a list follows of various ailments. The figure's teeth are the word: "Pills", and its legs and arms are pieces of pill-packaging in the form of tubes with printed lettering. Dulcamara is the name of a medicine vendor in the opera L'elisir d'amore (1832). The implication seems to be that the drug industry supported Lloyd George's National Insurance Bill

1 print : wood engraving ; border 24.9 x 18 cm

A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.

A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.

1 print : process print ; border 27 x 19.5 cm

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A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.

A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.

An ill man throwing a tantrum and a hot-water bottle after hearing his rubber shares have gone down. Process print after S. Wood, 1912.

The Kaiser angrily throwing his medicines on to the floor and shouting at his physicians that he needs a victory not tablets. Pen drawing by J.H. Dowd, 1914.

A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.

A patient telling her doctor that if she won a sweepstake it would do her more good than all his medication. Line block after C. Graves, 1932.

A doctor angry with his patient for trying quack medicine as well as his own prescription. Wood engraving by H.M. Brock, 1909.

A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.

A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.

A doctor visiting a sick child who is surrounded by medicine bottles, his mother waits in the background. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1911.

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A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.

A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.

An ill man throwing a tantrum and a hot-water bottle after hearing his rubber shares have gone down. Process print after S. Wood, 1912.

The Kaiser angrily throwing his medicines on to the floor and shouting at his physicians that he needs a victory not tablets. Pen drawing by J.H. Dowd, 1914.

A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.

A patient telling her doctor that if she won a sweepstake it would do her more good than all his medication. Line block after C. Graves, 1932.

A doctor angry with his patient for trying quack medicine as well as his own prescription. Wood engraving by H.M. Brock, 1909.

A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.

A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.

A doctor visiting a sick child who is surrounded by medicine bottles, his mother waits in the background. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1911.

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