Punch cures the gout, the colic, and the 'tisick [graphic].Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker[1849?]eng"Three revellers sit at a small round table on which is a large punch-bowl, each holding a full glass. A fat man in an arm-chair (right), full-face, each gouty bandaged leg supported on a stool, his left hand bandaged, and wearing a dressing-gown, with jovially contorted features, declaims the first part of the title. His neighbour, a young woman with her hand clasping her waist, declaims the second part. A wretched invalid (left), with stick-like limbs, looking on the verge of the grave, repeats the last part. The words, inscribed in scrolls, form the only title. They are the words of an old catch which continues: 'And is by all agreed the very best of physic' A patterned carpet, and cast shadows on a plain wall, complete the design."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from text in speech balloons within image, transposed right to left.Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.Publisher and date of publication from those of the volume in which the plate was issued.Plate numbered "453" in upper right corner.Plate from: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn by C. Whiting, [1849?].For an earlier state lacking plate number, see no. 9449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.Cf. Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, page 265.Cf. Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 453.Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic.