Vignettes at Large

Medicine and Healthcare then and now

Bitter Medicines

Paul Emile Destouches: can love triumph over disease

Dentistry by candlelight

Home therapy

Physicians disputing while patients suffers

Pulse and urine

The monkey as barber

The waiting room

Travelling healer pulls a tooth

Twelth century manuscript

Waiting for the doctor
Florence Nightingale at Scutari ^new
Hippocrates by the bedside ^new
Mandarin doctor examines the patient’s pulse ^new

Hacks and quacks

Areas of the brain

Electrotherapy

James Morrison’s vegetable cure

Medical pseudoscience

Painted pony

Practical hydrotherapy

Spectacle seller

The anatomist

Tuttle’s Family elixir

Using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth
The consultation or last hope, by Thomas Rowlandson (1808) ^new