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A doctor presenting a patient with a large pill; representing Addington's concession to the City of London by withdrawing income tax. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1802.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 29 March 1802Reference: 12189i
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Johann Caspar Spurzheim giving a phrenological demonstration before Franz Joseph Gall and another seven people; a grinning devil looks on. Watercolour painting.
Reference: 11833i
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A doctor in a strange hat. Watercolour, 1815.
Date: May 1815Reference: 10933i
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Franz Joseph Gall examining the head of a pretty girl, while three gentlemen wait in line. Coloured lithograph by E.H., 1825.
E.H., active 1825.Date: 1825Reference: 11847i
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A love sick man taking some of Doctor Hymen's pills to try and cure himself. Watercolour painting.
Reference: 11860i
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An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint by J. Gillray, 1801.
James GillrayDate: 11 November 1801Reference: 11820i
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Top: Daniel O'Connell as a cock supported by Jewish finance and the Roman Catholic church; below, O'Connell withdrawing from fighting a duel (?). Coloured lithograph by Robert Seymour, 1835.
Robert SeymourDate: [1 December]Reference: 12246i
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John Bull presented as the Chinese labourer Hoo Loo surrounded by surgeons discussing the removal of his tumor; referring to British political reform. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.
John DoyleDate: 2 May 1831Reference: 12234i
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A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
Henry HeathDate: July 1827Reference: 11809i
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An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
James GillrayReference: 11819i
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A dentist looking at a tooth of a very attractive female patient. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 16688i
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A sick man stranded on the toilet after taking a laxative. Coloured etching after J. Gillray after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, JohnReference: 12044i
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A man suddenly awakened by two squalling cats. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
James GillrayDate: 1 November 1806Reference: 10746i
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A healthy country squire being administered to by two ruthless doctors. Coloured etching, 1802.
Date: 12 July 1802Reference: 11213i
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A vicar asking a woman if she likes her new female doctor, the woman retorts that she prefers male doctors and finds them more genteel. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
George du MaurierReference: 15663i
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A doctor performing a paracentesis on an obese man, whose abdomen is tapped ejecting a fountain into a bucket. Coloured etching by Ull.
Free University of LuoziReference: 11812i
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Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10766i
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A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, JohnDate: 28 January 1804Reference: 12053i
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A sick man being visited by a reassuring friend. Wood engraving by H.B.
H. B., contributor to Punch.Reference: 11883i
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Lt. Col. Ashburnham performing animal magnetism on Lt. Col. Forbes. Pen and ink drawing, 183-.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]Reference: 11825i
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A pompous physician trying to impress the two ladies he is visiting. Etching, 1804.
Date: 12 January 1804Reference: 10960i
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An operator treating Ann Ford, a society lady, with "Perkins's tractors", for her venomous tongue. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1802.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 16 September 1802Reference: 11821i
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A physician by his patient's death-bed; represented with a skeletal death figure at the window and an undertaker's assistant arriving with a coffin. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813?, after R. Newton.
Richard NewtonDate: 1813Reference: 11215i
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A woman taking a large knife and scissors to the corns on her feet. Coloured lithograph after J. Gillray.
James GillrayReference: 11897i
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A woman telling a man that vaccination not baptism might have killed her child. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1891.
George du MaurierDate: 1891Reference: 14291i