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  • A bedridden sick young woman being examined by a doctor, accompanied by her anxious parents. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1838, after Sir D. Wilkie.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • A country doctor writing out a prescription for a sick patient, his wife and a monk are in the background. Engraving.
  • A doctor surrounded by four dead bodies writes out a prescription at a table, while to the right a man puts his sword into his scabbard after killing a man; indicating that the pen of the physician is mightier than the sword of the knight. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli.
  • A patient completely misunderstanding a doctor. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A girl waiting for a pharmacist to make up a prescription. Photogravure, 1912, after J. Jendrassik, 1896.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • A country doctor comforting the mother of a sick child, who is in bed in the background. Mezzotint by J.A. Allais after P. Duval-Lecamus.
  • A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
  • A young male physician stirring a medicinal mixture for a female patient, the patient's mother reassures her, a urine flask is on the table. Lithograph by A. Bida after G. Ter Borch, the younger.
  • An apothecary tells a drug addict to fill in his own prescription. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • An apothecary is making up a prescription for waiting customers, another takes a jar down from a shelf. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • Fever, represented as a frenzied beast, stands racked in the centre of a room, while a blue monster, representing ague, ensnares his victim by the fireside; a doctor writes prescriptions to the right. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • A physician examining urine. Engraving by A. Walker, 1763, after A. van Ostade.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
  • A young physician stirring a medicinal mixture for a female patient, the patient's mother reassures her, a urine flask is on the table. Engraving by A. Romanet after G. Ter Borch the younger.
  • Joseph Muff an unscrupulous physician and pharmacist giving child a mixture of medicine for her mother. Wood engraving by E. Landell after J. Leech, 1842 (?).
  • A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
  • A physician examining urine. Engraving by A. Walker, 1763, after A. van Ostade.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription for a kangaroo; representing Chamberlain's advocacy of the Commonwealth of Australia. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1900.
  • Thesaurus pauperum. Qui in comincia illibro chiamato Thesoro de poueri / compilato et facto per maestro Piero Spano.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A patient telling her doctor that if she won a sweepstake it would do her more good than all his medication. Line block after C. Graves, 1932.