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Fisher, Son, & Co., London.

Scenes from a doctor's life, from paintings by medical illustrator Frank Netter, include an emergency ward, cramming for exams, a new private practice, an anatomy lab, an African American home birth, a pediatric ward in a hospital, an ambulance call, a clinic with working-class patients, on the scene at a fire, and others.

Engraving shows physician standing with staff, a skull and a bone lie beside his foot, with verses underneath by William Bullein, English physician and cleric (c. 1515-1576).

Photographic reproduction of large painting. Partially visible label on frame of painting reads "-ec À L'Hopital Necker" (referring to Hopital Necker-Enfants Malade, Paris).

Includes slide reproduction.

Includes slide reproduction.

Shows Dr. Beaumont, Army surgeon, in his home at Fort Mackinack, 1820s, as he collects gastric fluid from patient St. Martin's fistula, with wife and child present in room.

A physician is lying asleep on examination table, surrounded by skeletons in the role of physicians/examiners.