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Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.

A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician. Watercolour by M. Anderson.

A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Engraving after J. Northcote.

Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.

Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Watercolour after L. Boilly, ca. 1823.

A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840.

A young physician taking the pulse of a woman with whom he is flirting, a young man passing by raises his hat. Colour stipple engraving by J. Parker, 1783, after J. Northcote.

An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

An excited physician examining a urine specimen and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis, two assistants are mixing concoctions in the background. Mezzotint by J.B. Enzensberger after D. Teniers, the younger.

A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.

Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.

A physician talking to a patient who is in bed. Etching by D. Berger, 1775, after D. Chodowiecki.

A doctor examining a nervous patient's eye for foreign bodies. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1937.

A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.

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Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.

A physician talking to a patient who is in bed. Etching by D. Berger, 1775, after D. Chodowiecki.

A doctor examining a nervous patient's eye for foreign bodies. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1937.

A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.