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A couple standing inside a condom introduce a cartoon sequence describing learning about AIDS and how to prevent it; an advertisement by the Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS. Colour lithograph by Marim [?] ca. 1997.

Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.

Cartoon 'They're discussing your case now'

Our Nurses.

Punch, 28 December 1861, Charles Darwin

Veth "Der Arzt...", 1927: title page

The first chloroform Anaesthetic in Berlin.

Cartoon 'Check your calculations Jones...'

Der Arzt in der Karikatur / herausgegeben von Cornelis Veth ; mit einer Einleitung von Friedrich Krauss.

The drunkard's children. A sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / With a poem by by Charles Mackay.

Punch, 25 May 1861, 'The Lion of the Season'

Cartoon advert for 'Lux' washing powder

Le Mesmerisme Confondu.

Goethe and caricature : from Hogarth to Töpffer / David Kunzle.

Le magnetisme.

Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.

A carriage or bathing machine drawn by a sea monster is driven below cliffs: the animal inside has its tail caught in one of the rear wheels; the coachmen and two other passengers speak. Soft-ground etching.

Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.

William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.

Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

The heads and shoulders of five male hair-dressers. Coloured lithograph by Jules Platier, 1840.

A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

Professors at the Medical Faculty, University of Louvain: seven caricatures. Drawing (?) by G. Parsy, ca. 1900 (?).

Frau Gruniacula, a character with a grotesque face. Line engraving attributed to D. Custos.

Women wearing four different styles of fashionable wigs. Coloured etching.

An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.

Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.

Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.

The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.

Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington as nannies protect Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne who are boys from the taunts of the junior Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

A man standing on a bank holds a large Union flag which is wrapped around a group of six standing figures believed to be patriots. Engraving 1771.

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Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.

The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.

Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington as nannies protect Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne who are boys from the taunts of the junior Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

A man standing on a bank holds a large Union flag which is wrapped around a group of six standing figures believed to be patriots. Engraving 1771.

Cartoon

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Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.

A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.

The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.

Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington as nannies protect Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne who are boys from the taunts of the junior Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

A man standing on a bank holds a large Union flag which is wrapped around a group of six standing figures believed to be patriots. Engraving 1771.

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