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Where there is no doctor : a village health care handbook / by David Werner ; with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell.
David WernerDate: 1993
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A rural tooth-drawer in his surgery extracting a tooth from a patient. Lithograph by E. Pigal.
Reference: 16679i
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A country doctor writing out a prescription for a sick patient, his wife and a monk are in the background. Engraving.
Reference: 21604i
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Date: Published according to Act of Parliament A.D. 1768Reference: 643336i
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A midwife attending a convalescing woman who has recently given birth, the baby is in a cradle next to her. Engraving after D. Teniers.
David Teniers the YoungerReference: 16979i
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A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians. Watercolour by T. Müller.
Müller, T.Reference: 21820i
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A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Etching after J. Northcote.
James NorthcoteReference: 21593i
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A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 15913i
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A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.
Roberts, Henry Benjamin, 1831-1915.Date: [1868]Reference: 21864i
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A country vicar visiting a family where a child has been suffering from scarlet fever. Wood engraving after C. Shepperson.
Claude Allin SheppersonReference: 15573i
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La asistencia sanitaria pública en el Aragón rural entre 1673-1750 : las conducciones sanitarias de Barbastro / Luis Alfonso Alcarazo García.
Arcarazo García, Luis AlfonsoDate: 2010
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A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
Jean-Baptiste OudryDate: [1736]Reference: 23083i
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A well dressed physician walking through a village in Corsica. Coloured aquatint after J. Daubigny.
Daubigny, J., active approximately 1794-1798.Reference: 21610i
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A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: 1747Reference: 22592i
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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.
Duval-Lecamus, Pierre, 1790-1854.Reference: 20364i
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A country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained by her family. Etching.
Reference: 16531i
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Volume 61. 'The Development of Rural Medicine C. 1970 - C. 2000'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2010 - 2017Reference: GC/253/A/61
Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars
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Historical perspectives on rural medicine : the proceedings of two Witness Seminars held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary University of London, on 29 January 2010 and 3 September 2015 / edited by C Overy and E M Tansey.
Date: 2017
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A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Etching by C. Visscher after A. Brouwer.
Adriaen BrouwerReference: 22611i
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder, ca. 1768.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Date: [1768?]Reference: 643378i
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Fifty years a country doctor / Hull Cook.
Cook, Hull, 1911-Date: [1998], ©1998
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A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint, 1792, after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Date: Published as the Act directs, 2 Jan 1792Reference: 16512i
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Ptōchopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor : collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent.
Pemell, RobertDate: 1650
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A rural medical practitioner examining a urine specimen, a concerned mother with two children sitting near him. Line engraving by A. Fleischmann, 1839, after J.F.C. Kreul (?).
Kreul, Johann Friedrich Carl, 1804-1867.Date: 1839Reference: 21854i
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J.S. Negges, 17--, after John Harris and John Dixon, 1768.
Harris, J.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 584023i

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Where there is no doctor : a village health care handbook / by David Werner ; with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell.

A rural tooth-drawer in his surgery extracting a tooth from a patient. Lithograph by E. Pigal.

A country doctor writing out a prescription for a sick patient, his wife and a monk are in the background. Engraving.

A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after J. Harris the elder.

A midwife attending a convalescing woman who has recently given birth, the baby is in a cradle next to her. Engraving after D. Teniers.

A sick man at home in bed discussing his case with three physicians. Watercolour by T. Müller.

A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Etching after J. Northcote.

A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.

A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.

A country vicar visiting a family where a child has been suffering from scarlet fever. Wood engraving after C. Shepperson.

La asistencia sanitaria pública en el Aragón rural entre 1673-1750 : las conducciones sanitarias de Barbastro / Luis Alfonso Alcarazo García.

A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.

A well dressed physician walking through a village in Corsica. Coloured aquatint after J. Daubigny.

A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.

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 country blacksmith in his forge extracting a tooth from a woman who is being restrained by her family. Etching.

Volume 61. 'The Development of Rural Medicine C. 1970 - C. 2000'

Historical perspectives on rural medicine : the proceedings of two Witness Seminars held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary University of London, on 29 January 2010 and 3 September 2015 / edited by C Overy and E M Tansey.

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Etching by C. Visscher after A. Brouwer.

A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder, ca. 1768.

Fifty years a country doctor / Hull Cook.

A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint, 1792, after J. Harris the elder.

A rural medical practitioner examining a urine specimen, a concerned mother with two children sitting near him. Line engraving by A. Fleischmann, 1839, after J.F.C. Kreul (?).

A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J.S. Negges, 17--, after John Harris and John Dixon, 1768.