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  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
  • A surgeon bandaging an elderly man's knee in a street surrounded by a group of onlookers. Colour process print after R. Caldecott.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A well dressed lady asking a doctor how one of his patients is, he retorts that the patient is no longer in his care, the relieved lady replies she is glad the patient is now out of danger. Wood engraving by C.E. Brock, 1901.
  • Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
  • A poor street peddlar selling rhubarb and spices in London. Wood engraving after R. Beard.
  • Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.
  • A group of emaciated and starving physicians lamenting their lack of work. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1875.