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Images from the collections

Images about Women patients

118 images from works
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • Scenes of nurses at St Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park, London. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
  • Christ sits at the bedside of Jairus's sickening daughter. Etching after G.C. von. Max.
  • A woman lies in bed, lovesick (representing the Netherlands); attendants try to raise her spirits by showing her a portrait of the newly appointed Stadholder, William III Prince of Orange (subsequently William III King of England). Engraving, ca. 1672.
  • Elizabeth Hopkins of Oxford, showing a breast with cancer which was removed by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.
  • A woman, reclining, with a large tumour on her right breast. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.

Works from the collections

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    A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front. Coloured pencil drawing by D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.

    Vierge, Daniel, 1851-1904. | Reference: 20222i
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    A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

    | Date: [1852?] | Reference: 563243i
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    A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

    Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704. | Reference: 44703i
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    A monkey holding a clyster in an apothecary's shop. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 15879i
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    A surgeon tending a woman who has just fainted after bloodletting; she is supported by female members of her family. Engraving by Garlieb after Eglon Hendrik van der Neer.

    Neer, Eglon van der, 1635 or 1636-1703. | Reference: 23467i

Related topics

Physicians
Physician and patient
House furnishings
Surgeons
Urine - Examination
Costume
Tumors
Pathology, Surgical
Bloodletting
Physicians - Clothing

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