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A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
Q3047679Reference: 16364i
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A young woman dabs her eye as her mother looks askance; she suspects the onset of cholera. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
Date: [c. 1832]Reference: 16436i
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Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
S. J.Date: 1791Reference: 15873i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares at a country market, assisted by a woman. Colour stipple engraving by L.-M. Bonnet after J.-P. Caresme.
Caresme, Jacques-Philippe, 1734-1796.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 21034i
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An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
Jean-Baptiste Le PrinceDate: 1775Reference: 21768i
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A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1824.
Q3047679Date: [1824]Reference: 16365i
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Five antiquaries look through magnifying glasses at objects. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823.
Louis-Léopold BoillyDate: 1823Reference: 16324i
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Two women talking about politics, one of them smoking a pipe. Lithograph by A. Lorentz.
Alcide-Joseph LorentzReference: 132i
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A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Coloured lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
Bommier, L. C., active 1841-1862.Date: [between 1850 and 1862]Reference: 27461i
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A poor doctor takes the pulse of a rich, corpulent patient and announces that he is very ill. Lithograph after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.
Q3047679Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 16491i
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The aldermen of Paris reviewing plans for a statue of King Louis XIV; behind, seen in a mirror, the banquet held in 1687 to celebrate the recovery of the king from illness. Line engraving by P. Chenu after C.N. Cochin after N. de Largillière.
Largillière, Nicolas de, 1656-1746.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 17057i
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A young doctor vows his love to a thoughtful young woman. Coloured photolithograph.
Reference: 16628i
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A convalescing soldier being reprimanded by his nurse for not taking his medicine. Coloured lithograph by J.S. after?.
Reference: 16888i
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A woman examines another woman's sore eye, while other women look on. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823.
Louis-Léopold BoillyDate: [1823]Reference: 677727i
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A physician examines an undressed lady. Photogravure after A. Guillaume, 1907.
Albert GuillaumeDate: 1907Reference: 17282i
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A seller of spectacles showing his wares and wearing a large pair of spectacles. Line engraving by N. Dupuis after F. Eisen.
Eisen, François, approximately 1695-approximately 1778.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 16259i
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Animals dressed as gentlemen and ladies survey the medical advertisements on a wall. Coloured wood engraving by J. Grandville, 1853.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GrandvilleDate: 1853Reference: 16661i
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The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
James GillrayDate: 4 March 1796Reference: 12183i
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A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.
Jean-Baptiste PaterDate: 1736Reference: 17610i
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The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
Date: [c. 1800]Reference: 16140i
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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.
Q3047679Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 16486i
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A French politician as a quack doctor wearing a feathered head-dress, holding a tooth and staff in the air and exclaiming to an audience that it is better to extract than to cure. Colour wood engraving (?) by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.
André GillDate: Dimanche 14 Decembre 1873Reference: 16753i
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A travelling tooth-drawer in a carriage extracting a tooth from a patient in front of a village audience. Lithograph.
Reference: 16827i
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A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured lithograph by E.J. Pigal, 1822.
Q3047679Date: [1822]Reference: 16485i
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Napoléon I and Marie Louise with their new born son. Engraving by A. Godefroy after Adolphe Roehn.
Adolphe RoehnDate: 1811Reference: 17626i