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Self Medication

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Therapeutics
Self Care

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Images about Self Medication

25 images from works
  • A man who has swallowed petroleum asks a pharmacist for a remedy; the pharmacist shows hims several bottles and lets him chose the one he prefers, with fatal results. Line block.
  • A man pulling a peculiar face as he is about to take some medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1801, after J. Gillray.
  • A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800.
  • A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800.
  • A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.
  • A man standing by a fire place, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured lithograph after J. Gillray.
  • A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
  • A man standing by a fireplace, pulling a peculiar face after taking some medicine. Coloured etching after J. Gillray.
  • A man self-administering hydrotherapy, sitting outside in a barrel. Coloured lithograph.
  • A sick man with a cold. Coloured lithograph, 1833.
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Works from the collections

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    A sick man with a cold. Coloured lithograph, 1833.

    | Date: 1833 | Reference: 11899i
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    The induction of sleep and insensibility to pain by the self-administration of anaesthetics / by John M. Crombie.

    Crombie, John Mann, 1844-1883. | Date: 1873
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    A man self-administering hydrotherapy, sitting outside in a barrel. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 11898i
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    A man pulling a peculiar face as he is about to take some medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1801, after J. Gillray.

    James Gillray | Date: [20 March 1801] | Reference: 12066i
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    The induction of sleep and insensibility to pain by the safe self-administration of anaesthetics / by John M. Crombie.

    Crombie, John Mann, 1844-1883. | Date: 1876
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Related topics

Medicine bottles
Fireplaces
Nonprescription Drugs
History, 19th Century
House furnishings
United Kingdom
Diabetes Mellitus
Medicines, Specific
Therapeutics
Books

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