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The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 778482i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Process print after G. de Saint-Aubin.
Reference: 20594i
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Crowds of people are gathered for a fete, a stage has been set up and actors are performing a play. Engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1777, after M. Schoevaerdts.
Schoevaerdts, Mathys, approximately 1665-1694 or 1723.Date: 1777Reference: 35095i
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A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
Frison, Gustave, 1850-Reference: 16870i
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Glysterpipe Fillpacket, Peregrino Mountebanko and Timothy Mouth: three dwarfs as itinerant medicine vendors selling their wares. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 20659i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.
Reference: 20933i
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A company of itinerant tooth-drawers performing on a stage. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, ca. 1860 (?).
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The fabulous Kelley : Canada's king of the Medicine Men / by Thomas P. Kelley, Jr.
Kelley, Thomas P.Date: 1974
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Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 6 March 1800]Reference: 20582i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing with props to a crowd in Siena. Engraving by G.B. Polanzani after S. Pacini after G. Mei.
Mei, Bernardino, 1615-1676.Reference: 20517i
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Itinerant medicine vendors in Rome. Oil painting attributed to Dirk Helmbreker.
Helmbreker, Dirk, 1633-1696.Reference: 45032i
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Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Etching, 1795, after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Date: 1 September 1795Reference: 20575i
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A procession of health officials ironically proclaiming the coming of vaccination. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16066i
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An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
Date: 11 May 1872Reference: 21053i
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A travelling procession of health officials who ironically praise the coming of vaccination. Etching.
Reference: 16065i
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An elaborately dressed medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to an audience, he points to a member of the crowd whose appearence suggests he is a doctor. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819.
Date: 1819Reference: 20946i
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A theatrical itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to a crowd, assisted by an elaborately dressed man and an owl. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20911i
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The autobiography of a quack : and, The case of George Dedlow / by S. Weir Mitchell ... ; illustrated by A.J. Keller.
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.Date: 1900- Books
The Vi-ton-ka medicine show.
Date: [1983], ©1983
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Doctor Rock, a vendor of medicines, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd at Kennington common: John and Charles Wesley are preaching in the background. Engraving, 1743.
Date: Aug.st 17th 1743Reference: 20649i
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A crowd watching a troupe of quack-doctors on a stage outside an inn. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, ca. 1640(?).
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 45030i
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Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Reference: 20568i