Title etched above image., Date supplied by curator., From an edition of "Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid" or "The Great Mirror of Folly"., Below image are twenty-four lines of verse in Dutch., 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):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Parrots, and Physicians
Title below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., In margin upper right: No.V., Subject is the controversy surrounding variolation vs. vaccination for smallpox., 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: Vaccination controversy.
The assembly of old batchelors and The assembly of old bachelors
Description:
Title below image., Place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Assemblee des vieux garçons., Below title is a verse from Dryden., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Pauls' Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Subject (Topic):
Life cycle, Human, Bachelors, Old age, Gout, Older people, Meetings, and Crutches
Title and place of publication from item., Date 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:
Printed and Published by W. Davison Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Servants, Bells, Sick persons, and Staffs (Sticks).
Title from item., Date from copy in British Museum., Part of image after Marcellus Laroon., Description from the British Museum copy: A satiricial broadside on Hans Buling, a Dutch mountebank in London; with an engraving partly after Marcellus Laroon, showing an interior with the quack doctor Buling on the left, bearded and dressed in an elaborate costume with cape, a broad collar and soft-brimmed hat, holding in his right hand a sheet of paper, in his left a small medicine bottle, at his feet to the left a medical chest, bottles, spatulas, and at his feet to his right a monkey; in the right background a curtain from which a Merry Andrew emerges, dressed in a Harlequin costume; with engraved title and verses in two columns., 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):
Buling, Hand, active approximately 1670-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Medical equipment and supplies, Medicine shows, Monkeys, and Clowns
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from print being published in Punch., 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: Politics, British.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, Sir, 1792-1861.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Drugs, Sick persons, Pubs, Pharmacists, Medicines, and Eating & drinking
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from publisher's known address., From the play by Henry Fielding, which is an adaptation of Le Médecin Malgré Lui by Molière., 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: Medicine in the Theatre.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Bowles according to Act of Parliamt and Printed for Thos Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Subject (Topic):
Lovesickness, False personation, Physician and patient, Physicians, Fans (Ephemera)., and Families
Title from item., Published: The Political Register. Vol. 2, June, 1768., In lower margin: The Blood & Vitals from her Wounds he drew, And Fed the Hounds that help'd him to pursue. Dryden., British Museum description: Satirical frontispiece to the Political Register, June 1768, showing Britannia stabbed by Lord Bute, her blood caught in bowls held by Lords Weymouth and Barrington; behind on the right, Lord Mansfield hands a bowl of blood to Lord Chatham who is seated his gouty leg on a stool and holding a crutch; on the steps in front of them, Lord Talbot drinks greedily from another bowl, a spit hanging by his side instead of a sword identifies him Lord Steward of the Household; behind on the left, Fletcher Norton, in legal robes, stands drinking from another bowl, an unidentified man leans forward to look at Britannia as she falls back, and another lawyer stands behind drinking from yet another bowl., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793., Talbot, William Talbot, Earl of, 1710-1782., and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Blood, Crutches, Bowls (Tableware)., and Homicides
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's dates., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Below title: 'you are very ill!', Sheet trimmed., 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: Medical fees.
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Published by J & H. Jenkins, 10, Bear St. Leicester Sqe. & W. McDowall, 20, Gt. Newport Street
Subject (Topic):
Pulse, Medical care, Cost of., Obesity, Physician and patient, Rich people, and Physicians
Title above image., Date and publisher information from copy in British Museum., Copy trimmed within platemark., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.