Medical doctor specialising as a generalist, usually working in primary care setting

Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.

FACTS : training and education / FACTS Health Co-ordination Centre.

A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.

An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor's bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine "Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery". Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910.

Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.

A man on a bicycle with a physician riding pillion; advertising the film "When father fetched the doctor". Colour lithograph, 191-.

An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.

A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.

A doctor placing his hand on the head of a sick boy, outside a country cottage. Photogravure after R. Hedley, 1898.

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 38.3 x 39.9 cm

1 folded sheet (6 pages) : colour illustrations ; 11 cm

Modern musketeers : for your constant protection : your doctor ... your dentist ... your druggist ... / Abbott Laboratories.

Farewell Doctor Finlay. 1/2.

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence, in alphabetical order.

Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries

1 print : stipple engraving, printed in sanguine ; platemark 50.3 x 37.6 cm

A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.

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General Practitioners

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Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.

Modern musketeers : for your constant protection : your doctor ... your dentist ... your druggist ... / Abbott Laboratories.

Farewell Doctor Finlay. 1/2.

Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries

A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.

General Practitioners

Images from the collections

Images about General Practitioners

Works from the collections

Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.

Modern musketeers : for your constant protection : your doctor ... your dentist ... your druggist ... / Abbott Laboratories.

Farewell Doctor Finlay. 1/2.

Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries

A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, she views it suspiciously, a younger woman stands smiling in the background. Colour stipple engraving by J. Cary, 1786, after H. Taylor.

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