Title from text below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Title is followed by six lines of verse., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Skeletons, Physicians, and Shovels
Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., Description from British Museum website: A broadside satire on the quack Richard Rock shown standing on the foot board of his chaise in Covent Garden; the horse, somewhat cross-eyed, standing quietly. He is finely dressed and holds a cup in one hand. His medicine chest stands open behind him, and his hat hangs inside the hood of the chaise. To the right of the chaise is a hunchbacked (?) man, possibly Rock's assistant, or toady, under whose arm is a package of books lettered "Dr. Rock 52 ways f[ro]m Ratlife" . Among the the crowd gathered around Rock are, on the left, two soldiers, one with a sword and wearing spatterdashes who may be intended as a blind man, has his hand on the shoulder of a bald man who holds his hat in his hand, gazing distractedly at Rock; behind Rock is a man apparently on horseback; on the right, a pregnant gin seller who has a large open basket slung from her waist in which are glasses and wicker bottles, the basket is lettered "S[an]d[y]'s Public spirit" (a reference to the recent Act of Parliament relaxing the law against gin), a another poorly clad woman with a large fish (?) basket resting against her leg, and a man offering a coin to Rock. To the right of the chaise can be seen the pillar with a sun-dial and globe which stood in Covent Garden market. Below, letterpress text satirising Rock with allusions to contemporary political affairs, including a probable reference to George II's frequent visits to Hanover, described as "an itch for Rambling"., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published April 2d, 1743, according to Act of Parliament, by G. Foster, at the White Horse, on Ludgate-Hill, and G. Bickham in May's-Buildings, Cove[nt-Garden, London--lacking]
Subject (Name):
Rock, Richard, 1690?-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Great Britain, Politics and government, Physicians, Spectators, Medicine shows, Selling, and Horses
Title etched above image., Date in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1700., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Placement instructions in lower left corner of plate: P. 163, Voll. 1., and Plate from: The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical. 5th ed. London: Printed for Sam Briscoe ..., 1719, v. 1.
Publisher:
S. Briscoe
Subject (Topic):
Alligators, Astrology, Books, Experiments, Fish, Globes, Medical procedures & techniques, and Physicians
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Translated title supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and Soiled. Discolored. Glue residue UL, UR. Tear B margin. Mat burn.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fever, Traditional medicine, Irrigation (Medicine)., Physicians, Sick persons, Water, Medicines, Servants, and Stress
Title from item in French and German., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., Print is possibly by Martin Engelbrecht., In margin upper right: 92., In margin lower left: Cum Pr. S.C. Maj., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber surgeons.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Physicians, Medical equipment & supplies, and Surgical instruments
Title from item., Written at lower edge: Ex uetusissimo Codice Dioscoridiano Bibliothecae Caesareae Vindobon. TAB II. 92., From: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1613-1696. Veterum illustrium philosophorum, poetarum, rhetorum, et oratorum imagines : ex vetustis nummis, gemmis, hermis, marmoribus, alijsque antiquis monumentis desumptae. Published in Rome, 1739., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apollonius; Nicander.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos., Galen., Crateuas., and Rufus, of Ephesus.
Title below each image., Top print is ca. 1720. Bottom print is 18th century. Dates supplied by curator., Place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Alchemy, Medicines, Scientific equipment, Purses, Rich people, Coal, Dwarfs, Medicine shows, and Physicians
Having been released from Bridewell Prison, the harlot is shown in a squalid bed-chamber, wrapped in a long sheet and seated in a chair by the fire, her head resting against a pillow in a swoon. Her dismayed attendant turns for help from the two doctors who are quarreling about the benefit of their nostrums, the one standing in anger, in the process turning over a table and chair. A second attendant is rummaging through the harlot's trunk on the right. Sitting on the floor near the harlot's chair is a young boy, scratching his head as he roasts meat on a stick, heedless of the dramas in the room
Alternative Title:
In a high salivation and at the point of death
Description:
Title from caption above image., Printer's statement from Plate I of the series., Engraved below image, three columns, six lines each, beginning: From Bridewell fredd she quickly gains, The French disease and all its pains ..., No. 5 of a series of 6 pirated copies of Hogarth's engravings of "A harlot's progress". Imprint varies from the Bowles copy described as no. 2036, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Written in contemporary hand below text: Margery. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Iohn Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Bedrooms, Physicians, Prostitutes, Servants, and Sick persons
"Portrait, half-length, in profile to righ, left hand on low parapet next to him, the elbow turned out, gesturing up and to his side with right hand, looking towards the viewer, wearing a long wig, coat with large cuffs, and a heavy, decorated cloak thrown over right shoulder and brought round across the front to beneath his hand on the parapet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., With eight lines of verse in Latin beginning: Effigiem Taylor, tibi qui demissus ab alto est ... ..cui laudes saecula longa canant., On page 84 in volume 1., and Ms. pencil note in Steevens hand above print: Doctor Taylor.
Title below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., From: Louis Basile Carré de Montgeron, La Vérité des Miracles Operés sur la Tombe du Bienheureux de Paris, Cologne, Libraires de la Compagnie, 1745-1747., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Paris, François de, 1690-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Religion and medicine, Orthopedics, Sick persons, Feet, and Physicians