Physician Collection (page 19)

Vaccination against smallpox, Paris, 1894. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
Vaccination against smallpox, Paris, 1894. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 29th January 1894

William Butler, English physician and writer. Artist: Clamp
William Butler, English physician and writer. Portrait of Butler (1535-1618) from an original picture in Clare Hall, Cambridge

Doctor Syntax with My Lord, early 19th century. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Doctor Syntax with My Lord, early 19th century

Dr Syntax Loses his Money at the Race Ground at York, 1813. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr Syntax Loses his Money at the Race Ground at York, 1813

Electricity In The Art Of Healing, 1881. Artist: W Shinkle
Electricity In The Art Of Healing, 1881. US President James Garfield has medical attention from an electrical detector. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

Sir William MacCormac Bart, Irish surgeon, (1903). Artist: Alfred Drury
Sir William MacCormac Bart, Irish surgeon, (1903). MacCormac (1836-1901) worked with the Anglo-American ambulance during the Franco-Prussian War and was an authority on gunshot wounds

The doctor makes his visits, c1900. French advertising for Liebig Extract of Meat. Private Collection

Dissection, late 15th century. Manuscript page from a French version of De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Cupping, 14th century. The application of heated cups to the skin was thought to draw harmful blood away from diseased organs and so promote healing

Georges Clemenceau, 1879. Artist: Edouard Manet
Georges Clemenceau, 1879. Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French Prime Minister (1917-20) and physician. Located at Musee d Orsay, Paris

Ambroise Pare, 16th-century French military surgeon, (19th century). Ambrose Pare (1509-1590) is widely regarded as the father of modern surgical practice

Gout and the Spider, c1835. Physician attending a clerical patient suffering from a case of gout. Illustration for Gout and the Spider from Fables by Jean de La Fontaine. (Paris, c1835)

Syntax Star-gazing, c1815. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Syntax Star-gazing, c1815. Dr Syntax showing a young woman the stars with a small refracting telescope typical of this date, while a manservant trips over a dog and falls headlong down the stairs

Ebenezer Sibly, British astrologer and physician, late 18th century. The vignette beneath the portrait shows a physician taking a patients pulse by the wayside

Jean Baptiste von Helmont, Belgian physician and chemist, 1870. Helmont (1579-1644) recognised that there are more gases than just air, and claimed to have coined the word gas

Erasmus Wilson, English surgeon and antiquary, 1880. Artist: Spy
Erasmus Wilson, English surgeon and antiquary, 1880. In medicine Wilson (1809-1884) specialised in skin diseases. His other interest was Egyptology, of which he was a generous patron

Hippocrates of Cos, Ancient Greek physician, 1866. Known as the father of medicine Hippocrates (c460-c359 BC) laid the foundations of a scientific basis for medicine

William Harvey, English physician, in Windsor Park, 17th century (1870). Harvey (1578-1657) explaining to Charles I the results of his investigations into reproduction

Professor Bergmann injecting a tuberculosis patient, 1891. Bergmann assisted Robert Koch (1843-1910) in investigations into the treatment of tuberculosis (TB)

Antoine de Jussieu, 18th century French botanist, 1807. One of a family of distinguished botanists, Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) was director of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris

Edward Jenner, English physician, 1800. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) practiced as a country doctor in his native Gloucestershire. He noted immunity to smallpox was given by cow-pox

Edward Jenner, English physician, 1837. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) practiced as a country doctor in his native Gloucestershire. He noted immunity to smallpox was given by cow-pox

Isaac Judaeus, physician to the rulers of Tunisia, 9th-10th century (1493). Isaac Judaeus (c855-c955) was one of the first whose works were translated from Arabic to Latin

James Manby Gully, British physician, 1876. Artist: Spy
James Manby Gully, British physician, 1876. Gully (1808-1883) practised first in London then in Malvern, Worcestershire, where he specialised in hydrotherapy

James Graham, Scottish quack doctor, 1795. Artist: John Kay
James Graham, Scottish quack doctor, 1795. Graham (1745-1794) set up the Temple of Health in The Adelphi, London. He used milk baths, friction, electricity and magnetism in the treatments he offered

John Radcliffe, English physician, 1747. Artist: Pierre Fourdrinier
John Radcliffe, English physician, 1747. Born at Wakefield, Yorkshire, Radcliffe (1650-1714) was Royal Physician to William III, Mary II and Queen Anne

John Brown, Scottish physician, 1791. Artist: John Kay
John Brown, Scottish physician, 1791. Brown (1735-1788) proposed the Brunonian system of medicine which had two classes of disease; sthenic (resulting from excess)

Harvey demonstrating circulation of the blood to the College of Physicians, c1628 (1870). William Harvey (1578-1657), English physician, published his famous De motu cordis

Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, 1860
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician. Hahnemann (1755-1843) founded the branch of medicine known as homeopathy in c1798. Engraving after a commemorative medal

Albrecht von Haller, 18th century Swiss physician and scientist, c1840
Albrecht von Haller, 18th century Swiss physician and scientist, [c1840]. Von Haller (1708-1777) worked in the field of experimental physiology and was the founder of the science of neurology

Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist, c1770 (c1780). Von Haller (1708-1777) worked in the field of experimental physiology and was the founder of the science of neurology

Franz Joseph Gall, German physician and founder of Phrenology, c1790
Franz Joseph Gall, German physician and founder of Phrenology, c1820. Phrenology was a theory, propounded by Gall (1758-1828) in around 1800

Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, c1867. Lister (1827-1912) pioneered the use of antiseptics in surgery

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, 1889
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, [1889]. Laennec (1781-1826) is shown listening to a patients chest at the Necker Hospital, Paris

Joseph Lister, English surgeon, on his ward round in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, c1867 (1927). A pioneer of antiseptic surgery

Philippe Ricord, French surgeon and venereologist, 1867. Artist: Andre Gill
Philippe Ricord, French surgeon and venereologist, 1867. Ricord (1799-1889) was described by Oliver Wendell Holmes as The Voltaire of pelvic literature. Cartoon from La Lune, (Paris, 10 October 1867)

Conrad Gesner, 16th century Swiss physician and naturalist, 1662. Artist: Conrad Meyer
Conrad Gesner, 16th century Swiss physician and naturalist, [1662]. Gesner (1516-1565) practiced in Zurich until he died of plague

Girolamo Fabrici, Italian anatomist and surgeon, 17th century. Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente - Italian name Girolamo Fabrici - (1537-1619) was one of the founders of modern embryology

Gentile da Foligno, 14th century Italian physician, examining a sample of urine, 1493
Gentile da Foligno, 14th century Italian physician, examining a sample of urine, [1493]. Gentile (d1348) wrote a great many commentaries on earlier medical authorities, as well as original works

Physician examining a specimen of patients urine, c. 1600 (19th century)
Physician examining a specimen of patients urine, c.1600 (19th century)

Georgius Agricola, 16th century German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist. Agricola (christened Georg Bauer) (1494-1555) was the author of De re metallica

Thomas Willis, 17th century English physician, 1742. Artist: George Vertue
Thomas Willis, 17th century English physician, 1742. Willis (1621-1675) was the first in modern times to notice the sweetish taste of diabetic urine in diabetes mellitus

Examining a patients thorax using an X-ray tube and fluorescent screen, 1903. The X-ray tube (on tripod) is set at the required height and the patient stands directly in front of it

Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist and physician, 1807. Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778) was the founder of the modern system of plant and animal nomenclature

Miss Nightingale and the Military in the East, c1860. Florence Nightingale in the British military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-1856). The doctor is taking a patients pulse

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870 to 1871

Jean Martin Charcot demonstrating hypnosis, 1879. Charcot (1825-1893), French neurologist and pathologist, demonstrating the production of hypnosis using beam of light from a magic lantern

Jean Martin Charcot, French neurologist and pathologist, 1893. Charcot (1825-1893) worked at the Salpetriere Hospital, Paris from 1862, and established a neurological unit there

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