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  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.
  • A surgeon bleeding a woman patient's arm, he is assisted by two attendants. Engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
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    An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop clinging on to his bag, after two gentlemen (one of them Tristram Shandy's father?) had attempted to look inside it. Aquatint by J.H. Clark, 1820, after L. Sterne.

    Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. | Date: 1820 | Reference: 22021i
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    A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.

    Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675. | Reference: 21718i
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    A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.

    Maton, Bartholomaeus, 1643 or 1646- | Date: 1787 | Reference: 21154i
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    A surgeon in his workroom extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Gouache painting by J. Einsle, 1806, after G. Dou.

    Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675. | Reference: 21129i
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    Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.

    Grenier de Saint-Martin, Francisque-Martin-François, 1793-1867. | Reference: 15971i
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