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  • A physician examining the urine of a pregnant girl. Oil painting attributed to a Netherlandish painter, 18th century.
  • Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
  • A patient anonymised by hospital life. Colour giclée print by Emily Brown, 2004.
  • A physician feeling the pulse of a seated woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Mrs Broadbent, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1840.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • Mrs Broadbent, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1840.
  • Mrs Broadbent, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1840.
  • St. John's and St. Elizabeth's Hospital, London: women patients in a surgical ward, with members of staff. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.
  • A physician administering a clyster to an embarrassed woman who hides her self and presents her behind through a window, female friends observe the scene. Photograph after a stone bas-relief in Bruges archaeological museum.
  • A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front. Coloured pencil drawing by D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: a female dormitory. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.
  • A sick lady addressing her husband, and being nursed by three women. Mezzotint by V. Green after E. Penny, 1774.
  • Mrs Broadbent, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1840.
  • Opening of Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, London. Wood engraving, 1886.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • Mrs Broadbent, afflicted with breast cancer. Watercolour, 1840.
  • A physician feeling the pulse of a seated woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • A physician examining the urine of a pregnant girl. Oil painting attributed to a Netherlandish painter, 18th century.
  • A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-naked woman in front of other doctors and a nurse, other female patients are waiting in the background. Process print of a wood engraving by G.D.I. after D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.
  • A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
  • A physician-virtuoso in his cabinet, examining a flask of urine brought by a lady. Oil painting by a painter in the circle of Gerard Thomas, early 18th century.
  • A physician auscultates a lady. Photomechanical reproduction by Jean Plumet, c. 1910.