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Sexual harassment of women

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  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • A man attempting to embrace a young woman, a dog biting his bag; a guard holding a sword in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Two men hidden behind a fence are watching a young woman bathing; cottages in the background. Coloured lithograph by L. Noël after E. Lepoittevin, 1847.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
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    A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

    | Date: [1852?] | Reference: 563243i
    Part of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice
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    Susanna and the elders. Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman junior after Cornelis Schut.

    Schut, Cornelis, 1597-1655. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 28768i
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    Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.

    | Date: [1852?] | Reference: 563105i
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    A man attempting to embrace a young woman, a dog biting his bag; a guard holding a sword in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1860.

    | Date: [1860?] | Reference: 577421i
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    A naked woman lies stretched out on the doctor's couch; she has swallowed a two sou piece; with two other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction, 1910.

    Barn, Théophile. | Date: July 1910 | Reference: 17284i
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