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Jean Jacques, a physician in traditional costume, 16--. Coloured engraving by L. Massard after himself.

Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.

A man holding a pack of 'Jubol' medicine tells clyster-wielding physicians that they are now obsolete. Wood engraving by Henriot, c. 1885.

A physician, a burgess (the physician's patient), and the dean of a university, in their respective costumes, 13--. Coloured wood engraving by Cupré after F.P.

A physician in traditional costume with sword, France 17--. Coloured engraving.

A group of physicians trying to diagnose a young woman's illness in a scene from Molière's L'amour médecin. Etching attributed to G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.

A physician in traditional costume examining urine in a flask, the young female patient is in bed, France 14--. Coloured etching by P. Pauquet after a 1493 manuscript.

A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.

Two physicians are reconciled by another, overseen by a duck-like parody of the Holy Ghost. Lithograph by F.E. Regamey after himself.

Two doctors arguing over the bed of a dying patient. Engraving by P.F. Tardieu after J.B. Oudry.

A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.

An old physician with a clyster attends to one of his patients. Lithograph by L. Morel-Retz.

From provincial savant to Parisian naturalist : the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) / edited and introduced by Laurence Brockliss.

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.

Le médecin et le 7e art : essai sur la représentation du médecin au cinéma / Robert Askenasi.

A physician examining a urine specimen. Etching by A. Bosse, 1635.

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Physicians - France

Images from the collections

Images about Physicians - France

Works from the collections

From provincial savant to Parisian naturalist : the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) / edited and introduced by Laurence Brockliss.

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.

Le médecin et le 7e art : essai sur la représentation du médecin au cinéma / Robert Askenasi.

A man holding a pack of 'Jubol' medicine tells clyster-wielding physicians that they are now obsolete. Wood engraving by Henriot, c. 1885.

A physician examining a urine specimen. Etching by A. Bosse, 1635.

Physicians - France

Images from the collections

Images about Physicians - France

Works from the collections

From provincial savant to Parisian naturalist : the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) / edited and introduced by Laurence Brockliss.

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.

Le médecin et le 7e art : essai sur la représentation du médecin au cinéma / Robert Askenasi.

A man holding a pack of 'Jubol' medicine tells clyster-wielding physicians that they are now obsolete. Wood engraving by Henriot, c. 1885.

A physician examining a urine specimen. Etching by A. Bosse, 1635.

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