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1. Poisoning the sick at Jaffa [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 29, 1814.
- Call Number:
- Print00639
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Poisoning the sick at Jaffa [graphic].