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A dandified physician takes the lancet to a turkey, watched over by fashionable women. Coloured etching, 1801.
Date: [1801]Reference: 16161i
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A young woman convalescing in her boudoir with a visiting couple, while her maid prepares her medicine. Reproduction of a coloured aquatint.
Spiridon, Ignace.Reference: 17159i
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A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16071i
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Henri IV of France touching the head of a kneeling man for the king's evil (scrofula). Line engraving.
Reference: 18465i
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A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
Date: 1830Reference: 16084i
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A salesman selling booklets on self-surgery from a knapsack in the street. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, 1829.
Charles PhiliponDate: 1829Reference: 20905i
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A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
Matthew DarlyDate: Pubd. accordg. to Act of Parllt. June 13th 1771Reference: 10930i
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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 woman breast-feeding her child. Line engraving by MD after J.Ch., [16--].
H, J.C. (Designer and engraver in Paris)Date: 1600-1699Reference: 17428i
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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 sick woman is attended to by three men. Colour line engraving by C.J.D. Eisen after himself, 1762.
Charles Dominique Joseph EisenDate: [1762]Reference: 15974i
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A physician examining a person dressed as Pierrot who lies in bed, in the background another person in a similar costume is grieving. Etching by E. Champollion after T. Couture.
Thomas CoutureReference: 22158i
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A young man buying a potion (to induce falling in love?) from a street medicine vendor from Molière's play L'amour médecin. Engraving after J.B. Molière.
MolièreReference: 21943i
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A fashionable lady being given an enema by a charming young man. Line engraving by J. Dieu de Saint-Jean.
Dieu de Saint-Jean, Jean, 1654-1695.Date: [1698?]Reference: 15856i
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An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
Charles BargueDate: [1852]Reference: 16384i
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Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
Louis-Léopold BoillyDate: 1824Reference: 652850i
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A home nurse carrying a 'hot-coal' bed warmer. Coloured wood engraving by J.A. Lavieille after H.B. Monnier.
Q2566423Date: 1840-1849Reference: 17423i
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An old woman reading. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after G. Dou.
Gerrit DouReference: 16039i
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Dr. J. Alibert taking serum from a servant's baby to vaccinate the child of Mme Desbordes-Valmore. Photograph, 1938, of a painting by C. Desbordes, 1822.
Desbordes, Constant-Joseph, 1761-1827.Date: 1938Reference: 17856i
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A husband wearily pampers his pregnant wife. Lithograph by F. Bouchot, 1838.
Bouchot, Frédéric, 1798-Date: 1838Reference: 16463i
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Textiles: tapestry weaving, a man working at a loom (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 43884i
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A young fashionable apothecary-surgeon (?) about to give a sick wealthy lady an enema. Engraving by A. Bosse, 16--.
Abraham BosseDate: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 16068i
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A man dressed in absurd protective clothing against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 16428i
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A woman wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages after breast feeding it, several other women and a small child sit with her. Engraving by A. Bosse.
Reference: 17560i
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A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
Louis-Léopold BoillyDate: 1827Reference: 652845i