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Social classes - France

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  • A young doctor (homeopath?) visiting a patient and comforting his worried wife. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A young doctor confides in his equally fashionably dressed friend. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
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    Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

    Bruyères, Hippolyte. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 27623i
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    A young doctor (homeopath?) visiting a patient and comforting his worried wife. Coloured photolithograph.

    | Reference: 18190i
    Part of: L'oméopatie
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    Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.

    Marais, Maurice, 1852- | Date: 23 January 1897 | Reference: 16999i
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    An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).

    | Reference: 16241i
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    A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.

    Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938. | Reference: 17018i
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