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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.

Physician's oath, found at the end of a medical work by Asaph the physician, who lived in Israel in 6th century AD. Facsimile of original Oxford Hebrew Ms 2138. Text is reproduced in Hebrew script on one side and in English on the other. Red initial letters. Matted with two windows.

Image of physician or surgeon in white coat with cap, supporting a nude woman with long hair, pushes away a skeleton who is kneeling and grasping her by the legs. Signed by unidentified artist.

Carbon print photograph of painting, from Royal Gallery of Buckingham Palace. Physician in fur hat and robes gazes upward at liquid in glass globe, while holding wrist of female patient, also in fur-trimmed garments.

Engraving after painting by Greuze. An old man on his sickbed is served food and drink by his many children.

Carbon print photograph of painting, from the Hermitage at St. Petersburg. Portrait of sick woman in fur-trimmed garments, seated in large chair, while physician in black robes to her right gazes at liquid in glass globe.

Subjects include Meissen figures of Florence Nightingale, a gout sufferer,a quack doctor, a faun and baby, and alchemy.