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The Middlesex Hospital, London: in the foreground a patient is helped from his sickbed towards his welcoming family by a surgeon and his assistant. Etching after A. Mills.

A young man puts his head through the window of a barber's shop where glass has been replaced by paper; the barber inside responds by putting his head through another paper pane: a man and two women walk by. Coloured etching by A. Mills, 1806.

Martin van Butchell. Etching by J. Mills after A. Mills.

William Buchan. Line engraving by J. Mills, 1803, after A. Mills.

An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.

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The Middlesex Hospital, London: in the foreground a patient is helped from his sickbed towards his welcoming family by a surgeon and his assistant. Etching after A. Mills.

A young man puts his head through the window of a barber's shop where glass has been replaced by paper; the barber inside responds by putting his head through another paper pane: a man and two women walk by. Coloured etching by A. Mills, 1806.

Martin van Butchell. Etching by J. Mills after A. Mills.

William Buchan. Line engraving by J. Mills, 1803, after A. Mills.

An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.