"A quack doctor (right) stands outside his house surrounded by a pyramid of bottles inscribed 'Velnos Syrup', one of which he holds up, demonstrating its virtues with a complacent smile to a band of rival practitioners (left) who are furiously threatening his barricade. Behind his head is inscribed : 'List of Cures \ In 1788,5,000 \ In 1789, 10,000'. The house is at the corner of 'Frith Street'; it has a porch inscribed in large letters 'Mr Swainson N. 21'. A surgeon threatens Swainson with a knife, raising also a leg to kick. A second surgeon kneels on one knee, also holding a knife and glaring ferociously; beside him is a basket of surgeon's instruments. Behind him is a man who directs an enormous syringe at the self-satisfied Swainson. An old man wearing spectacles holds up a 'Pill Box'. These assailants are dominated by a very stout man in the rear who holds up a pestle in one hand, in the other a mortar inscribed 'Mercury the only Specific'. Above his head is poised a nude Mercury holding a caduceus and urging on the attacking force."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vegetable intrenchment and Vegetable entrenchment
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary medicines -- Velnos Syrup.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Swainson, Isaac, 1746-1812
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Interpersonal confrontation, Physicians, Mercury, Patent medicines, Bottles, Sculpture, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mortars & pestles
"A companion plate to British Museum Satires No. 13989 by the same artist, and with the same imprint. A Chinese interior resembling that of British Museum Satire No. 13986. George IV as a mandarin, languid and ill, sits cross-legged on a low settee. Peacock's feathers (cf. British Museum Satire No. 13299) decorate his round hat. Sidmouth as a Chinese doctor feels his pulse with concern. At the King's feet is a long rolled document headed 'List of Addresses presented to Caroline Queen of [Engla]nd'. Behind (right), a melancholy Chinese messenger hands Bloomfield (a Chinese wearing a large sword) a paper: 'Bill Thrown Out'. The latter registers dismay with raised arms. There is a slanting cloud of smoke as in British Museum Satire No. 13986. On the wall is a picture of the Queen, with sword and shield, fighting a dragon. Carved dragons decorate the King's settee (or throne), and there is a big dragon jar on the right; all the dragons look menacingly towards the King, who rests his right hand on a table on which are decanter, pill-box, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Published circa November. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Moments of pleasure., and Mounted on page 37 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Subject (Topic):
Costumes, Chinese, Interiors, Furniture, Draperies, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Documents, Smoke, Messengers, Vases, Figurines, and Dragons
Title from caption below the image, engraved on a separate plate (plate mark 3.9 x 22.8 cm.) and impressed below the image. Title preceded by the number "1.", "Pr. 1 shil.", Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Claudius Galenus, 130-200 -- Allusion to Hippocrates, 460-357 B.C. -- Medicine: pills -- Medicine bottles -- Weapons: cudgels -- Barrels -- Domestic service: black boy -- Tutors -- Quacks -- Wine glasses., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 34 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Clark, engraver and printseller in Gray's Inn
New papa disappointed with Justice Shallows attempt to charm the brutes
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publication year appears to have been altered in plate from 1791 to 1792., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: nurses -- Forceps -- Surgical tools -- Obstetrics --Tambourine -- French horn -- Hurdy-gurdy -- Children: newborns -- Literature: allusion to "Pickle" in Bickerstaff's Spoil'd Child, played by Mrs. Jordan -- Allusion to Dorothy Jordan, 1761-1816., and Watermark: I Taylor.
Publisher:
Pub. March 15, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Warren, Richard, 1731-1797, and Ford, Richard, Sir, -1806
Subject (Topic):
Medical equipment & supplies, Musical instruments, and Physicians
"A three quarter length portrait of Dr. Messenger Monsey walking towards the spectator; his right arm rests on the shoulder of a Chelsea pensioner; both men walk with sticks. Monsey wears a hat and wig, the pensioner holds his hat in his right hand. The background is the north front of Chelsea Hospital showing its pediment and eastern portion. This is very freely sketched, as are two pensioners with crutches by the doorway. Beneath the title is etched: 'Epitaph on the late Dr Monsey, supposed to have been written by himself. Here lie my old limbs - my vexation now ends, For I've liv'd much too long for myself & my Friends As to church-yards & grounds which the Parsons call holy, Tis a rank piece of priestcraft, & founded on folly; In short, I despise them; and as for my Soul, Which may mount the last day with my bones from this hole I think that it really hath nothing to fear From the God of mankind, whom I truly revere. What the next world may be, little troubles my pate If not better than this, I beseech thee, Oh! Fate, When the bodies of millions fly up in a riot, To let the old carcase of Monsey lie quiet. Peter Pindar.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into the last century and Epitaph on the late Dr. Monsey, supposed to be written by himself
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Chelsea Hospital: exterior, north front -- Dr. Messenger Monsey's epitaph -- Chelsea pensioners' uniforms -- Clock on pediment of Chelsea Hospital., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Veteran's hospitals., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 313 x 274 mm, on sheet 425 x 296 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 19th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Monsey, Messenger, 1693-1788 and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Clocks & watches, Physicians, Crutches, and Veterans
"A three quarter length portrait of Dr. Messenger Monsey walking towards the spectator; his right arm rests on the shoulder of a Chelsea pensioner; both men walk with sticks. Monsey wears a hat and wig, the pensioner holds his hat in his right hand. The background is the north front of Chelsea Hospital showing its pediment and eastern portion. This is very freely sketched, as are two pensioners with crutches by the doorway. Beneath the title is etched: 'Epitaph on the late Dr Monsey, supposed to have been written by himself. Here lie my old limbs - my vexation now ends, For I've liv'd much too long for myself & my Friends As to church-yards & grounds which the Parsons call holy, Tis a rank piece of priestcraft, & founded on folly; In short, I despise them; and as for my Soul, Which may mount the last day with my bones from this hole I think that it really hath nothing to fear From the God of mankind, whom I truly revere. What the next world may be, little troubles my pate If not better than this, I beseech thee, Oh! Fate, When the bodies of millions fly up in a riot, To let the old carcase of Monsey lie quiet. Peter Pindar.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into the last century and Epitaph on the late Dr. Monsey, supposed to be written by himself
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Chelsea Hospital: exterior, north front -- Dr. Messenger Monsey's epitaph -- Chelsea pensioners' uniforms -- Clock on pediment of Chelsea Hospital., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Veteran's hospitals.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 19th, 1789, by H. Humphrey, New Bond St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Monsey, Messenger, 1693-1788 and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Clocks & watches, Physicians, Crutches, and Veterans
"A young man in civilian dress, Battier, and two officers of the Tenth Hussars, are having their shaved heads inspected by six grotesque practitioners of phrenology, two to each. On the wall, besides pendent skulls, is a placard : Craniums examined and fitness developed.-- 1. Penetration--2. Folly--3. Insolence--4. Conceit--5- Benevolence--6. Ideality--7. Civility--8. Self Love 9. Brutality 10. Pride with Ignorance! Battier is identified by a paper at his feet, To Co . Bat**; he has a head of ideal shape; one expert says to the other: No, wont do for the 10th to omuch of No. 1-- 5 and 7--. One officer (left) sits in back view, he has a grotesquely misshapen head with lateral protuberances; the inspecting expert says to his colleague: No. 9 Conspicuously. The other (right) sits in profile; he is without a forehead, with an absurdly extended back to his head. One phrenologist, smelling his cane, says: No 3 and 4 very clear. The other adds: Heres the 10th the 10th the 10 to a demonstration."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Science practically developed
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Battier, William, active 1824
Subject (Topic):
Phrenology, Physicians, Head, Hussars, Costume, Military uniforms, Skulls, and Baldness
"Bonaparte stands in a dispensary opening off a military hospital, conspiratorially giving orders to a slyly grinning doctor who shows him a bottle labelled 'Poison'. The general points to the hospital, separated from the dispensary by a curtain, where men, apparently moribund, lie on bedsteads. In the dispensary are jars, bottles, scales, pestle, and mortar; a small crocodile hangs from the roof (cf. British Museum Satires No. 11057). The most persistent of all 'atrocity' charges; certain plague-stricken French soldiers being given opium on the retreat from Acre in May 1799, see British Museum Satires No. 10063."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., One of thirty plates from: The life of Napoleon, a hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos. London : Printed for T. Tegg, Wm. Allason ; Edinburgh : J. Dick, 1815., See also: W. Helfand, "The poisoning of the sick at Jaffa", Veröffentlichungen der Internat. Ges. für Geschichte der Pharmazie, neue Folge, volume 42, Wissenschaftl. Verlagsges. Stuttgart, 1975., and See further: Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914, pages 200-211.
Publisher:
Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Israel. and Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Subject (Topic):
Plague, Soldiers, Poisoning, Poisons, Peste, Hospitals, Interiors, Military hospitals, Sick persons, Physicians, Mortars & pestles, Scales, and Crocodiles
John Bull, supported by Peel, lies on the ground while Wellington uses a crossbar to force into his mouth a piece of paper entitled "Catholic emancipation. John Bull shouts "Murder! if you get it down it will ruin by consitution." Wellington dressed as a doctor except for cavalry boots, responds "Hold him fast, Bob, I'll soon make him swallow it. there it goes Johnny you wil be quite a different man after this."
Alternative Title:
Dr. Arther & his man Bob giving John Bull a bolus and Dr. Arther and his man Bob giving John Bull a bolus
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top., The figure with hat and cane is a device of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath., and Advertisement following subtitle: "Political & other caricatures daily pub[lished]."
Publisher:
Pub. April 1829, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Catholic emancipation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Drugs, Dosage forms, Mortars & pestles, Medicines, Politicians, and Physicians