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A woman misunderstanding instructions about meals and medicine for her husband from the doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after H.M. Brock, 1936.
H. M. BrockDate: 1936Reference: 15525i
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A doctor asking an elderly patient if he has taken a box of pills that he has prescribed, the patient retorts that he found the boxes difficult to swallow. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1906.
Leonard Raven-HillDate: 1906Reference: 15348i
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An ill man throwing a tantrum and a hot-water bottle after hearing his rubber shares have gone down. Process print after S. Wood, 1912.
Starr WoodDate: 11 December 1912Reference: 15765i
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A cynical doctor describes the contents of his new cough mixture. Coloured lithograph by C. Jacque, 1844.
Charles JacqueDate: [1844]Reference: 16553i
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The Kaiser angrily throwing his medicines on to the floor and shouting at his physicians that he needs a victory not tablets. Pen drawing by J.H. Dowd, 1914.
Dowd, J. H., active 1914.Date: 16 December 1914Reference: 15791i
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A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.
Reference: 15851i
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A patient telling her doctor that if she won a sweepstake it would do her more good than all his medication. Line block after C. Graves, 1932.
Charles Larcom GravesDate: 1932Reference: 15501i
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A doctor angry with his patient for trying quack medicine as well as his own prescription. Wood engraving by H.M. Brock, 1909.
H. M. BrockDate: 1909Reference: 15370i
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A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
John Bernard PartridgeDate: 1912Reference: 15395i
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A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.
Alphonse-Léon NoëlReference: 16879i
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The family physician, and the house apothecary : containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of, II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians, III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries, IV. That it's plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it's not onely a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries / by Gideon Harvey.
Gideon HarveyDate: M DC LXXVI [1676]
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A doctor visiting a sick child who is surrounded by medicine bottles, his mother waits in the background. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1911.
H. M. BatemanDate: 1911Reference: 15743i
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"Doctor Panurgus" curing the folly of his patients by purgative medicines and chemical cures. Line engraving attributed to Michael Droeshout, 16--.
Droeshout, Michael, approximately 1578-1638.Date: [between 1643 and 1667]Reference: 12024i
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A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.
Alphonse-Léon NoëlReference: 16878i
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Oral morphine in advanced cancer / Robert G. Twycross and Sylvia A. Lack.
Robert TwycrossDate: 1984
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A doctor asking his messenger if he delivered some medicine to one of his patients. Process print after W. Lunt, 1913.
Lunt, Wilmot, 1856-1939.Date: 5 February 1913Reference: 15772i
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A mother explaning to a doctor that her baby's medicine has been used up quickly because the whole family tried it - to encourage baby to take some. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Prance, 1923.
Prance, Bertram, 1889-Date: 1923Reference: 15431i
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A doctor attends a sick patient (who has the head of a railway engine); representing an industrial dispute regarding railway transport. Pen drawing by C.H. Phelp, 1919.
Phelp, Charles. H., active 1919.Date: 1919Reference: 15815i
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Mr. Lambkin ill with his feet in warm water being nursed by Mrs. Slops. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
George CruikshankReference: 12112i
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A sick boy pulling a peculiar face after eating some gruel which also contained some medicine. Engraving by W. Holl, the younger, after W. Hunt.
William Henry HuntReference: 18186i
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Oral morphine : information for patients, families and friends / Robert G. Twycross, Sylvia A. Lack.
Robert TwycrossDate: 1988
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Advertisement for tablets that are supposed to help indigestion, anemia, stomach problems, migraines and insomnia. Colour photomechanical reproduction.
Reference: 16211i
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A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 18173i
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A disgruntled gouty man with all limbs bandaged, a table covered in medicine bottles is next to him. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
Henry HeathReference: 11891i
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A man grimacing at some unpleasant tasting medicine he has been prescribed to take. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 18183i