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  • A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; representing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Etching after M. Voltz (?), 1815.
  • A barber shaving a man. Mezzotint.
  • A barber shaving a customer; then cutting his nose off: a sequence of fifteen pictures. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • A poor man suffering from indigestion. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès.
  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.
  • A glum Frenchman: he has plenty of 'buttons' (French boutons, i.e. moles, nodules or naevi) on his face, but lacks them on his trousers. Coloured pen and ink drawing by Tirvert.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a queue of hospital visitors with a nurse collecting money for the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A boy walks across the snow crying and leaving a trail of red paint. Colour process print after Harry Rountree.
  • A monster representing an influenza virus hitting a man over the head as he sits in his armchair. Pen and ink drawing by E. Noble, c. 1918.
  • A Jewish military "money surgeon" searches the mouth of a prisoner of war for gold fillings (?), others watch and wait. Coloured pen and ink drawing.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses arguing and going to various places to cry. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A patient alarmed at his doctor's request that he abstain from alcohol for a month. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1925.
  • A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • Two women observing a sign for buying teeth, one of them remarks that she had recently had one extracted and the clinic had held on to it. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1914.
  • A well known doctor giving a prescription to a patient and telling him if it doesn't work to come back. Reproduction of a drawing after G.L. Stampa, 1926.
  • Three lecherous men gather round a pretty street seller, admiring her rather than her wares. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E. Pigal.
  • An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A small boy shaving a donkey. Coloured lithograph.
  • A father-to-be is being reassured by the family physician. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1928.
  • A barber shaving a customer; then cutting his nose off: a sequence of fifteen pictures. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from his patient. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, ca. 1832.
  • An old labourer consulting a doctor about his aches and pains. Wood engraving by B. Thomas, 1912.
  • A neighbour checking on an old sick man and enquiring about what the doctor has said, the old man retorts that he has recommended exercise. Wood engraving by G. King, 1907.
  • A posterior view of a medical student wearing a surgical gown untidily tied up. Coloured pen drawing by E. Griset.
  • Five people looking through various types of spectacles. Colour lithograph by F.S. Delpech after L.L. Boilly.
  • A young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance; she suspects the onset of cholera. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
  • A barber shaving a customer; then cutting his nose off: a sequence of fifteen pictures. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.