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Medical fees

Images

  • A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
  • A country gentleman surprised at the cost of his doctor's fees. Reproduction of a drawing, 1921.
  • A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.
  • A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others' deaths. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
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Catalogue

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    The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap.

    De Styrap, Jukes. | Date: 1890
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    The medical practitioner appearing as a devil when he asks for his fee. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.

    Panderen, Egbert van, 1581-1637? | Date: [1609?] | Reference: 23860i
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    Fees and fee bills : some economic aspects of medical practice in nineteenth century America / by George Rosen.

    Rosen, George, 1910-1977. | Date: 1946
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    Private physicians and public programs / Frank A. Sloan, Jerry Cromwell, Janet B. Mitchell.

    Sloan, Frank A. | Date: [1978], ©1978
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    A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.

    Culiale. | Date: c. 1905 | Reference: 17164i
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