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  • The captain of a ship is looking through a telescope at an approaching hurricane on which is inscribed 'Talks' ; a naval officer is standing beside him. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • A chemist creates a new form of gunpowder - incombustible; representing a futile new invention. Coloure lithograph by J.-B.-D. Bourdel, 1835.
  • Philippe Ricord. Coloured wood engraving (?), 1867, after A. Gill.
  • A horse disturbs a dying bonfire with its hooves, ignoring its rider's whip and the angry shouts of two women whose laundry is being covered in ashes. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • A grimacing invalid seated before a bowl having received an emetic, another man clasps his head compassionately. Etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • Lady Strachan and Lady Warwick making love in a park, while their husbands look on with disapproval. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • An exotic doctor magnetises a young woman; her husband looks on. Lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops.
  • A crowded street in London. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.
  • A phrenologist at work on a girl, surrounded by members of her family. Engraving by C. Rolls after E. Sharpe, c. 1830.
  • Mr. Lambkin behaving in a drunken and disorderly manner resulting in being restrained and arrested by a policeman. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • An army of demons armed with clysters, one of which is a huge cannon, attack a man tied to a tree; suggesting the awful experience of having an enema. Pen drawing.
  • An undertaker drops in to give Christmas and New Year wishes to a sick man. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
  • Sir John Campbell, Attorney General, sits with his wife, Lady Stratheden, who holds up a crown of the peerage. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • A lawyer or judge (Lord Brougham?) being addressed by a man with a top hat in his hand. Lithograph.
  • Men and women are attending an auction of paintings: the auctioneer is selling the painting on the wall. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A man trying to shave himself with a blunt razor. Lithograph by William Green after M.W. Fry, ca. 1820.
  • A misunderstanding between a doctor his patient and her daughter. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • A monkey physician examining a cat patient for fleas. Coloured lithograph.
  • Lord John Russell in fetters, as Filch, dances while Daniel O'Connell, on the left, represents Peachum and Joseph Hume, on the right, Lockitt. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.