Title derived from caption below image., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Complete caption: The quintessence of quackism, founded principals truly chimerical aetherial magnetical, electrical, & immaterial, & the four quarters of the globe ransak'd to make it ingeniously rediculous. Dedicated to the emperor of quacks, by myself., Description from British Museum: Beneath the design is engraved a musical score with the words of a song. A burlesque representation of the quack doctor James Graham (1745-94), who opened his 'Temple of Health' in the Adelphi in the autumn of 1779. Graham stands full-face; he holds in his mouth the end of the tail of a monkey which sits on his head. The monkey holds out a duck by one leg, which is saying "Quack Quack". Graham holds out in his right hand a circular box inscribed "Æthereal Pills". A medallion hangs round his neck, on which is a woman's head, inscribed "Female Historian". She is Mrs. Catherine Macaulay (see index) whom he treated at Bath, so gaining his first start. He stands between two gigantic men wearing large laced hats and long coats; one, "Gog" (left), in back view, the other, "Magog" (right), stands full-face holding a paper inscribed "Sketch of the Plan of the Temple of Health". These represent the gigantic footmen or porters who were among the attractions of the 'Temple' and who distributed bills advertising the establishment, see BMSat 6346 and Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, i. 97. Between them, and above Graham's head, the words "Hail Wonderous Combination!" are etched. By the left margin of the print, two men are gazing at the spectacle, one clasps his hands in admiration or supplication. On the opposite side is a man grinning with two small boys who laugh and point, one of them a little chimney-sweep with brushes and sack., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the Act directs. Oct 30th. 1780. P. Mitchel North Audley St. Grosvenor Sq.
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Physicians, Porters, Monkeys, Chimney sweeps, Musical notation, Childrens, Ducks, and Medals
Baldrey, John K., born ca. 1750, active 1780-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1784]
Call Number:
Print00694
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date and place of publication from item., See: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, political and personal satires. No. 3798., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1st 1784, by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Quacks and quackery, Medical fees, Sick persons, Physicians, Children, Mothers, Barter, and Bacon
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751 [that is, between 1790 and 1835]
Call Number:
Print20075
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "James Field" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., Fourth state, with price mostly burnished from plate. This state of the plate was first issued in The original works of William Hogarth (London : Sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790). It was reissued, with some lines strengthened by the engraver James Heath, in The works of William Hogarth (London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1822); another edition was published by Baldwin & Cradock in 1835. See Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prevention of cruelty to animals -- Anatomical theatres -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dog feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Final print in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., Plate from: Nichols, J. The genuine works of William Hogarth. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1808-17, v. 1, page 199., Copy of an engraving by Hogarth that was published in 1751. Cf. No. 3166 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3. See also: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 190., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomy theatres -- Prevention of cruelty to animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756).
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme
Subject (Topic):
Dissection, Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Physicians, and Skeletons
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Artist is probably James Pollard, 1792-1867., Place of publication from item., In the background, two servants, one black and one white, are on the sidewalk and appear to be starting a fight., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Dean & C. Threadneedle St.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Black people, Drugs, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Horses, and Competition (Psychology).
Title from item., Frontispiece for: George Alexander Gordon, The Complete English Physician, London: Alexander Hogg, 1779., Sheet trimmed., 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: Prescriptions; Office interior; Apothecary Shop, interior., and Mounted. Discoloration. 2x2.
Publisher:
Alexander Hogg
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Drugs, Prescribing, Physicians, Sick persons, Medical equipment and supplies, Skeletons, Books, and Medical offices
"A sickly goose, lying in an armchair, surrounded by anthropomorphic pill bottles, medicine bottles of other remedies, each recommending themself as the cure."--British Museum online catalogue and Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. A bottle says: "I think the poor goose requires a little of Godfrey's cordial", another bottle says: "a bottle of balm of Gilead would revive him." A water pump is suggesting: "I should recommend him to sleep in wet sheets & drink three gallons of pump water daily" a pill says: "let him have a dozen boxes of Blairs gout pills, & put his drumsticks in hot water." A bottle of ointment says: "His case is exactly like the Earl of Aldborough's so nothing can cure him but Holloway's ointment & pills", an old man says: "Parrs life pills I see are the only things that can save him." Another bottle of pills replies: "Life pills! Vegetable pills you mean, let him be well stuffed with Morison's no.1 & 2." A minute man on top of a book entitled "homeopathy" says: "it's cholera clearly and I should prescribe a little unripe fruit - the millonth part of a green gooseberry."
Description:
Title from item., Illustration to: The comic almanack for 1847. London : Imprinted for David Bogue ..., [1847]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultations -- Proprietary Remedies -- Godfrey's Cordial -- Balm of Gilead -- Blair's Gout Pills -- Holloway's Ointment -- Holloway's Pills -- Paris Life Pills -- Morison's Pills.
Publisher:
David Bogue
Subject (Name):
Morison, James, 1770-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Alternative medicine, Human behavior, Animal models, Physicians, Patients, Hydrotherapy, Geese, Animals in human situations, Patent medicines, and Bottles
"Bedroom scene: an invalid in a dressing-gown sits smiling in an arm-chair, while a fat yawning doctor, 'Quiet', puts a night-cap on his head. On the right 'Merryman', dressed as a zany or clown, with a gridiron painted on the back of his striped tunic, kicks Death towards the door (right), and presses his cap like an extinguisher against its grinning skull; he says: "Be Off! Be Off! you have no chance where Diet Merryman and Quiet practice!" Death answers: "Then my first job must be to quiet you and your partners will soon follow." Quiet: "Come now for a little quiet; Merrymans dose has opperated suficiently!" The patient holds a 'merrythought'. A fat cook, 'Diet', stands on the left inspecting a dish of bare chicken bones; he says, grinning broadly: "He'll do! Pick'd the bones clean! We shall beat the Charlotte Street Medical Board hollow!" A dinner-table, with an empty plate, a decanter of 'Madiera' and a loaf, is on the left, and behind it a large canopied bed. The chimneypiece (right), is covered with medicine-bottles. The floor is boarded. On it lie two piles of 'Carricatures', evidently the 'Caricature Magazine', on which the imprint is inscribed. There are also books lettered 'Jests'. A puff for Tegg's Magazine, cf. British Museum Satires No. 11976."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Numbered "380" in upper right corner of design., Temporary local subject terms: Bed curtains -- Doctors., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dr. Diet -- Dr. Merryman -- Dr. Quiet -- *Charlotte Street Medical Board -- Skeleton as Death -- Diet., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 245 x 346 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Bedrooms, Physicians, Skeletons, Clowns, Draperies, Canopy beds, Cooks, Dining tables, Eating & drinking, Fireplaces, and Bottles
"Grinning yokels, burlesqued, wheel (right to left) three wheelbarrows; one (right) contains a very fat parson with a gouty leg and grog-blossom nose, who lies on his back, registering impotent rage. Next is a very thin apothecary, holding his gold-headed cane; between his legs is a pestle and mortar containing medicine-bottles, one labelled 'To be well shaken'. On the left is an angry lawyer, holding a bag from which a paper projects. Villagers stand round watching the procession, cheering delightedly. Behind, from among trees, appear a hay-stack, an antique farm or cottage, and a church tower with a large Union flag at its flag-staff."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "377" in upper right., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Law -- Country Doctors -- Physicians caricatured.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 15th, 1819, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London
An obese doctor in a dressing gown and slippers stands in the center looking right at a group of three male patients, all elderly and with diseased and contorted faces. He hands a small bowl to one patient; medical supplies are laid out on the table at his side as well as on the floor near the table. Another patient while another leaves the room leaning on a crutch. In the background two women in obvious pain await their turn; behind them, an open cupboard reveals a skeleton
Description:
Title from item., "One of a set of copies of watercolours by Rowlandson, all with an imitation of his signature and the same imprint"--British Museum online catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Eady, Dr.
Publisher:
Published by Reeve & Jones, No. 7 Vere Strt
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Pain, Physical characteristics, Physicians, Sick persons, and Skeletons