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A koala bear climbing up a tree. Coloured etching by T. L. Busby after Cruikshanks.

A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

Boniface consulting a doctor about the fullness of his stomach. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby, 1827.

A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.

A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.

A shopkeeper sews up his wife's mouth to stop her from nagging. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.

Saint Geneviève interceding for the people of Paris afflicted by ergotism. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1820, after G.-F. Doyen, ca. 1820.

A man goes into a barn and opens a rat trap; a rat jumps put and bites him on the chin. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A man in ragged clothes being bitten by a guard dog at the entrance to a town house; representing the sense of touch. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.

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A man in ragged clothes being bitten by a guard dog at the entrance to a town house; representing the sense of touch. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.