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Village practice : a year in the life of a country doctor's wife / Anne Stratford ; illustrations by Gill Younger.

68 pages ; 30 cm + 5 appendices and sound tapes.

The wives of fortunate men / Mary Ann Elston.

Dialogue includes: Doctor's wife. "Are you feeling better, Giles, since the doctor sent you the new medicine?" Giles. "I dunno that I am, Mum. You see, the more he tampers with me the wuss I seems to be."

1 print : halftone ; border 18.9 x 17.9 cm

A physician's wife having tea with one of her husbands patients: she enquires if he is feeling better; he retorts that the more he sees the doctor the worse he feels. Process print after G. Belcher, 1929.

Dialogue includes: Eminent physician. "I feel very queer. I wonder what can be the matter?" Anxious wife. "Shall I send for Doctor Pilcox or Doctor Squills?" E.P. "No, no." A.W. "Or any other doctor?" E.P. "No; we all go in for thinking each other humbugs!"

An ill physician refusing to let his wife call another doctor. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

The painting on the wall, in the print, is of Diana, the huntress, in a landscape with bulldog

Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.

Dialogue includes: Doctor's wife. "I'm off now, darling. I shall be back on Tuesday. Take care of yourself, and promise me you won't go near this horrible influenza."

1 photomechanical reproduction ; image and text 16.1 x 12 cm

A fashionable doctor's wife bids him goodbye for the weekend and tells him to stay away from the nasty influenza. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Pegram, 1934.

Wives of some famous doctors : President's address / by Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys.

215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Hana Bälz : die Frau des Japanarztes Erwin Bälz / Ume Kajima ; aus dem Japanischen von Sachiko Yatsushiro.

A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.

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Village practice : a year in the life of a country doctor's wife / Anne Stratford ; illustrations by Gill Younger.

The wives of fortunate men / Mary Ann Elston.

A physician's wife having tea with one of her husbands patients: she enquires if he is feeling better; he retorts that the more he sees the doctor the worse he feels. Process print after G. Belcher, 1929.

An ill physician refusing to let his wife call another doctor. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.

A fashionable doctor's wife bids him goodbye for the weekend and tells him to stay away from the nasty influenza. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Pegram, 1934.

Wives of some famous doctors : President's address / by Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys.

Hana Bälz : die Frau des Japanarztes Erwin Bälz / Ume Kajima ; aus dem Japanischen von Sachiko Yatsushiro.

A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.

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Village practice : a year in the life of a country doctor's wife / Anne Stratford ; illustrations by Gill Younger.

The wives of fortunate men / Mary Ann Elston.

A physician's wife having tea with one of her husbands patients: she enquires if he is feeling better; he retorts that the more he sees the doctor the worse he feels. Process print after G. Belcher, 1929.

An ill physician refusing to let his wife call another doctor. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.

A fashionable doctor's wife bids him goodbye for the weekend and tells him to stay away from the nasty influenza. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Pegram, 1934.

Wives of some famous doctors : President's address / by Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys.

Hana Bälz : die Frau des Japanarztes Erwin Bälz / Ume Kajima ; aus dem Japanischen von Sachiko Yatsushiro.

A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.

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