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  • Dear kind doctor / written and composed by Joseph Tabrar ; sung by George Robey.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • A obstetrician dressed in a grand manner, wearing a sword and carrying a tall cane. Etching, 1773.
  • Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • Oliver Goldsmith's medical advice rejected by his patient in favour of the advice of the apothecary. Oil painting by Thomas P. Hall, 1856.
  • College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • M0006977: Portrait possibly of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
  • M0000461: Franz Joseph Gall (1758 - 1828), German neuroanatomist
  • The medical register.
  • A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians. Watercolour by T. Müller.
  • A doctor meeting a barber in a country setting. Engraving.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • A physician in his study, turning to the viewer to exploit illness arising from sin. Engraving by J.D. Hertz, 17--.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • The quack's song / written by F.C. Burnand ; music by W. Meyer Lutz ; sung ... by Edward Terry in F.C. Burnand's extravaganza "Camaralzaman.".
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Medical staff standing round a woman patient in bed in a hospital ward. Photograph by Seeberger Frères, ca. 1910.
  • Tabitha Grunt a hypochondriac who appears to suffer from many illnesses, consulting a bemused looking doctor. Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A Jewish physician in traditional costume. Engraving.
  • Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.
  • Three churchmen: John Wesley, William Paley, and Beilby Porteus. Engraving.
  • Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.
  • A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Effects of medical treatments. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1850.
  • A doctor examining an obese man and his wife and servant for suspected food poisoning from toadstools. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • M0003143: Courtyard of the Royal College of Physicians
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.