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A doctor reprimanding an obese patient for not taking his medicine. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1797.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 20 December 1797Reference: 11056i- Pictures
Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.
Date: 8 July 1799Reference: 12190i- Pictures
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A grumpy physician taking the pulse of an alarmed man. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11221i- Pictures
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Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching after J. Cawse, 1799.
Cawse, John, 1779-1862.Date: 18 November 1799Reference: 10768i- Pictures
Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.
Date: [27 February 1769]Reference: 10762i- Pictures
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The alarmist Miss Minifie informing Miss Gunning and her mother of their banishment from the general's house. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 25 March 1791Reference: 11904i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured stipple engraving by P. Maguire after J. Gillray, 1796.
Date: 1796Reference: 16604i- Pictures
Three women, one of them wielding a syringe approach three apprehensive men. Pen drawing.
Reference: 11911i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who is seated on a stool. Coloured pen drawing by A.G., 1821, after J. Gillray, 1796.
Date: 7 January 1821Reference: 16603i- Pictures
A stockbroker feigning deafness to avoid paying the man who claims to have restored his hearing. Coloured etching, 1786.
Date: 2 October 1786Reference: 10958i- Pictures
A group of doctors fighting. Stipple engraving, 1785.
Date: 28 November 1785Reference: 11648i- Pictures
An English fool acting as spokesman for a Dutch quack doctor; an ornate border composed of the paraphernalia of quackery surrounds his proclamation. Engraving by G. Bickham.
Reference: 10935i- Pictures
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A man carrying a giant syringe. Pen drawing, ca. 1810.
Date: [1810?]Reference: 10954i- Pictures
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A doctor on horseback. Engraving.
Reference: 10784i- Pictures
Protesting licentiates marching to the Royal College of Physicians in 1767. Coloured etching by J. June, 1768.
Date: [as the Act directs 1 September 1768]Reference: 10758i- Pictures
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A doctor giving a woman some medicine in front of a group of disagreeing men; representing Dr. Musgrave's attempt to bring charges against a group of politicians who had allegedly taken bribes from the French to complete the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Etching, 1769.
Date: [12 August 1769]Reference: 12168i- Pictures
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A surgeon and two assistants manipulating dislocated shoulder back into the correct position and other diagrams of different methods of curing dislocation. Etching.
Reference: 22762i- Pictures
Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching by J. Cawse, 1799.
Cawse, John, 1779-1862.Date: 18 November 1799Reference: 10767i- Pictures
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Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.
Wyund, D. E.Date: 1890Reference: 16196i