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  • Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • The aldermen of Paris reviewing plans for a statue of King Louis XIV; behind, seen in a mirror, the banquet held in 1687 to celebrate the recovery of the king from illness. Line engraving by P. Chenu after C.N. Cochin after N. de Largillière.
  • A young woman convalescing in her boudoir with a visiting couple, while her maid prepares her medicine. Reproduction of a coloured aquatint.
  • An allegorical figure wearing a large variety of surgical instruments including some on his head and hands. Etching after an engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A physician administers leeches to a patient; advertising Knoll diuretic medicine. Colour process print, 19--, after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).

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Physician and patient
House furnishings
Physicians - Clothing
Rich people
Vaccination
Dogs
Household employees
Sick
Carriages and carts
Smallpox - Vaccination