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Alligators

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  • A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • An apothecary sitting in his shop, sorting through materia medica, surrounded by paraphernalia of his profession. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A cayman basking on an island surrounded by swamp. Coloured lithograph after C. B. Brown.
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Catalogue

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    A tooth-drawer examining the tooth of a seated patient amidst paraphernalia relating to his profession. Pencil drawing attributed to D. Teniers II.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Reference: 16464i
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    An apothecary mixing a concoction in his working room surrounded by the paraphernalia of his profession. Wood engraving by A. Bellenger after H.S. Marks.

    Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898. | Reference: 15919i
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    A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth after extracting it from a patient, who is spitting blood out of the window. Coloured lithograph by J.A.(?). Pecht, 1836, after G. Dou, 1672.

    Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675. | Date: 1836 | Reference: 16454i
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    A woman in a feathered headdress and carrying a bow, is quelling a dark-skinned man; representing America. Etching by T. Hancock, 1805.

    Hancock, Thomas, 1774-1809. | Date: 1805 | Reference: 35401i
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    A surgeon in his workroom extracting stones from a patients head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Photogravure after J. Steen.

    Steen, Jan, 1626-1679. | Reference: 21106i
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