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Cartoons on health

Throughout time, people have always been concerned with staying healthy though not always living a healthy lifestyle. Knowing that health care has come long way in the past century you can imagine how strange and bizar some of the themes appear to us today.  These old cartoons on health feature miserable patients and doctors, dentists and even outright quacks at work. Just look at how they went about trying to lose weight back in the day. Obesity, smoking, drinking and dental problems as health issues and the innovative ways that people tried to cure what was ailing them are all brought back to life through the humor of the cartoonists art and rapier wit. Looking at the comparatively primitive methods of healing, we can certainly feel fortunate to live in modern times with our modern health care. Have fun exploring these ailments and cures but you’re better off not trying any of them at home!

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Macassar oil
The gout
Tugging at a tooth
A French dentist showing a specimen
The headache
To Calais
The walking hospital
The interior of a packet
Amputation
Introduction of the gout
Steam bath pampering
A going! A going!
Mixing a recipe for corns
The dance of death: the apothecary
The cholic
Court hearing of a dispute
Galvanism in Piccadilly
Reduction
Love, Law and Physic
Patent medicines
The cow-pock, or the wonderful effects of the new inoculation
Punch cures the gout
Metallic tractors
Bath races
Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading
Cigars
A consul and a consultation
Indigestion
Pain and champaign
A pair of snuffers
Palatable physic
A smoking party
Cham-paign and real-pain
Abernethey’s patent remedy, or how to stop an unruly tongue
Touch for touch, or a female physician in full practice
Breathing a vein
Taking physick
Friends by the ears
Brisk cathartic
Taking physic
Taking an emetic
Nurse and patient
The blue devils!
Flea bites, or, The ballad singer
A perfect cure for love
Ill with flu
Oh! There’s something in my eye!
Easing the toothache
The last gasp, or, Toadstools mistaken for mushrooms
Bumpology
Bored physician
Dentist reassuring patient that it can all be replaced
A cure for a cold
False body parts
A gentleman in easy circumstances
How merrily that doctor’s be
The toothache, or, torment and torture
Dropsy courting consumption
A physical lecture!
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
The umbrella
Anti-saccharrites
The stomach pump
A visit to the toilet
Pulling a tooth

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