M0018395, M0018396, M0018397: Five engravings from Mr. Punch among the doctors, 1933

Previous title, replaced October 2020: 'Our medical Students'.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: 'The tower of Imagination'.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: 'A consultation'.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: "What did you operate on Jones for?" "A hundred pounds!"

A negative with images of five engravings: 1. "Our medical students" showing two students at night, one studying and one relaxing, originally published in Punch, 1846; 2. "The power of imagination" showing a physician taking the temperature of a patient in bed, originally published in Punch, 1886; 3. "A Consultation" showing a physician's consultation with a patient, originally published in Punch, 1895; 4. "Not the pleasantest way of putting it" showing a physician talking to a bedridden patient, originally published in Punch, 1898; 5. "What did you operate on Jones for?" showing two physicians talking about an operation, originally published in Punch, 1925. The engravings were reproduced in Mr. Punch among the doctors, London : Methuen, 1933

January 1961

4 photographs on 1 negative sheet film negative; 3.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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