The Doctor's Visit: Punch cartoon of microbes around a physician and patient, 1905

A printed page from Punch, November 15, 1905, with a wood-engraved cartoon titled The Doctor's Visit. A physician in a dark coat enters a sickroom where a seated figure in a bed-gown and cap rests, while small, grotesque microbe figures with labels crowd the foreground and doorway. Text in the caption and column below describes the scene.

Artist

Arthur Rackham

Date

1905

Medium

Caricatures Wood engravings

Source

Wellcome Collection

Size

4000 × 3565 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection