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., Date derived from publisher's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from street address., On the floor is a note saying: I purge I bleed I sweat em; Then if they Die I let em., 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: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. by McCleary, 32, Nassau Street
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Death, Death (Personification)., Dead persons, Physicians, Undertakers, Skeletons, Coffins, Medicines, and Chamber pots
Title etched below images., Date supplied by curator., Above images: Caricatures Anglaises. No. 11., After Rowlandson. See Print00176., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Vallardi, Boulevard Poissonière, No. 5; Déposé à la Direction
Subject (Topic):
National characteristics, Bartenders, Medicines, Alcoholic beverages, Lemons, Physicians, and Medical equipment & supplies
Title etched below image., In ink in margin lower right: a Paris chez Martinet., Date supplied by curator., In margin lower right: Dépé. àla Diron., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Maison Martinet
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Carriages & coaches, Medicines, Servants, Poor persons, and Rich people
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Plate is a frontispiece to Moyse Charas, Pharmacopée royale, galenique, et chymique. It was first published in 1676., Depicted are allegorical figures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America bringing their riches to Pharmacopeia. Aloe and potatoes are represented on the plinths in the foreground., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Print shows a hideous old maid standing at right before her chair, supported on a crutched stick, as she addresses a comic doctor at left, who faces her, much disconcerted, with his gold-headed cane pressed to his chin. Her dress is antiquated, with high-heeled shoes; one foot is swollen with "Gout", the other with "Chilblains", and is also distorted with "Corns". Her person and costume are covered with the names of diseases in appropriate places: "Lightness" (on a feather nodding from her head), "Head Ache", "Stupor", "Dizziness", "Palsy", "Ague", "Sore Throat", "St Vit. Dance", "Asthma", . etc. Medicine bottles on a table beside her are labelled "Miss Grunt" and "T- Grunt". A little dog, shaved in the French manner, barks at the doctor. The room is a comfortably furnished parlour, with an iron balcony outside a window reaching to the floor, with a background of trees
Alternative Title:
Walking hospital
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Two columns of etched verse beneath title: Im loaded with ev'ry disease, it is true ... You're welcome to all, Sweet Miss's adieu!, and Plate numbered "525" in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 24, 1813, by Jas. Whittle, & Richd. H. Laurie, Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., Depicted on the table is a book with "Buchan" on the spine. William Buchan was a physician, and author of "Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines"., 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: Taking medicine.
Title etched below image., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., A copy after James Gillray, Taking Physic, published 1800., 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: Taking medicine.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Oral medication, Sick persons, Medicines, and Fireplaces
Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from street address., Date supplied by cataloger., A copy after Richard Newton, The Blue Devils. See Print00669., 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: Devils & demons.
Publisher:
Pub by Sidebotham Sackville St. Publisher & importer of Caricatures--NB--the greatest variety in Europe constantly on sale
Subject (Topic):
Depression in men, Depression, Mental, Mentally ill persons, Demons, and Medicines