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A sick lady addressing her husband, and being nursed by three women. Mezzotint by V. Green after E. Penny, 1774.
Edward PennyDate: March the 22nd 1775Reference: 466055i
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Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England / by Kaara Peterson.
Peterson, Kaara L.Date: 2010
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The Middlesex Hospital: the interior of one of the female wards. coloured aquatint by J. C. Stadler, 1808, after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: 1 November 1808Reference: 38615i
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A woman (Kwo Pe) with a tumour hanging from her upper lip. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1839.
Lam QuaDate: [1839?]Reference: 643382i
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A doctor's advice to two lady patients - that the attractive one return to see him frequently whereas the other must seek a new climate in New Zealand. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1889.
George du MaurierDate: 1889Reference: 14292i
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A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
Date: [1828]Reference: 20232i
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A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; representing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Etching after M. Voltz (?), 1815.
Voltz, Michael, 1784-1858.Reference: 17847i
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The writing on the wall : women's autobiography and the asylum / Mary Elene Wood.
Wood, Mary EleneDate: [1994], ©1994
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Elizabeth Hopkins of Oxford, showing a breast with cancer which was removed by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.
Michael BurghersDate: [1700?]Reference: 563327i
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Mrs Prince, after surgical removal of a breast. Watercolour, 1841.
Date: 1841Reference: 603115i
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A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Date: [1912?]Reference: 24009i
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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the female workroom. Wood engraving probably by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.
Palmer, F., active 1860.Date: 1860Reference: 39266i
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A physician auscultates a lady. Photomechanical reproduction by Jean Plumet, c. 1910.
Date: 1910Reference: 17283i
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Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
James GillrayDate: 15 February 1790Reference: 18122i
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A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
Cornelis DusartDate: 1695Reference: 23037i
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A man visits a woman in hospital. Colour process print after a lithograph by T.A. Steinlen.
Théophile SteinlenReference: 17288i
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Mrs Broadbent, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1840.
Date: [1840]Reference: 665377i
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A physician examining the urine of a pregnant girl. Oil painting attributed to a Netherlandish painter, 18th century.
Reference: 44714i
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A man performing a painful operation on a woman's tooth. Oil painting by Pieter van Laer, 16--.
Pieter van LaerReference: 44611i
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A physician taking the pulse of a young woman, while an old maid prepares gruel for her. Oil painting by Quirin Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam.
Quirijn van BrekelenkamReference: 40476i
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Advice for women on sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1949.
Abram GamesDate: [1949]Reference: 20288i
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An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the removal of her 'folly' (insanity). Line engraving after N. Weydtmans after himself.
Weijdmans, Nicolaes Jansz, 1570-1642.Reference: 21065i
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An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
Frans van Mieris the ElderDate: 1819Reference: 21684i
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A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
Cornelis DusartReference: 45021i
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A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Abel FaivreDate: 22 March 1902Reference: 17073i