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Family Practice

Images

  • A mother and her five delighted children turned away from their dentist's at Easter because he has toothache. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1874.
  • A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
  • A surgeon-apothecary shouts back from an open window at a request for a night-visit to a patient, sending pot plants and a cat flying. Coloured aquatint by H. Pyall after M Egerton (Ego), 1827.
  • A doctor examining a boy patient who is with his mother, recommends abstinence from meat and dairy products: the boy misunderstands the remedy. Wood engraving by JB, 1863.
  • A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Treatment in general practice. Vol. 1-2, The management of some major medical disorders : articles republished from the British medical journal.

    | Date: 1938
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

    Waller, Wathen Ernest, d.1958 | Date: 1912-1944 | Reference: GC/93
    • Videos

    The doctor. Episodes 2 and 3.

    | Date: 1991
    • Audio

    The art of consultation.

    Abercrombie, G. F. (George Francis) | Date: 1958
    • Audio

    The beginning of the College of General Practitioners.

    Rose, F. M. | Date: 1959
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