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Medicine and Caricature / The Wellcome Trust.

Bloodletting from the foot. Oil painting after H. Daumier.

Némésis médicale illustrée, recueil de satires ... / F. Fabre ; revue et corrigée ... avec soin par l'auteur: contenant trente vignettes dessinées par M. Daumier.

The workplace of a female healer (midwife and surgeon), with signboard, from outside. Reproduction of wood engraving after H. Daumier, 1841.

Robert Macaire as a doctor selling, at a so-called 'free consultation', bottles of water for twenty francs each and glasses of water for 10 centimes each. Lithograph by H. Daumier, c. 1835.

Four messengers are sitting on a wall having a discussion at cross-purposes. Lithograph by H. Daumier.

A phrenologist examines two skulls from his collection. Reproduction of an etching by H. Daumier.

An old woman and a nun trying to treat a swelling on a child's face by pressing it in. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1838.

Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas carrying out a chemical procedure. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier.

A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.

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Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879

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A phrenologist examines two skulls from his collection. Reproduction of an etching by H. Daumier.

An old woman and a nun trying to treat a swelling on a child's face by pressing it in. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1838.

Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas carrying out a chemical procedure. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier.

A physician and a nurse discuss the recent death of a patient: the physician instinctively resorts to blaming the patient for non-compliance in following the prescribed dosage. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1840.

Némésis médicale illustrée, recueil de satires ... / F. Fabre ; revue et corrigée ... avec soin par l'auteur: contenant trente vignettes dessinées par M. Daumier.