"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the customers. The fat quack compounds medicines at the counter. A grotesque crowd of agonized patients enters through a doorway (left) inscribed 'Apothecaries Hall'. Two sit in arm-chairs. The jars are 'Canthar[ides]', 'Arsnic', 'Opium', 'Nitre', 'Vitriol', 'Elixir', with (right) 'Restorativ Drops'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: I have a secret art to cure / each malady, which men endure., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 85., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Pharmacy, interior -- Apothecaries.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
Title supplied by curator., From: Amboise Paré, Cinq Livres de Chirurgia, Paris: Andre Wechel. 1572., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
André Wechel
Subject (Topic):
Dislocations, Orthopedics, Medical procedures & techniques, Medical equipment & supplies, Sick persons, and Physicians
Translated title supplied by curator., Date and publisher from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Ministry of Health, Latvian SSR and Министерство здравоохранения Латв. ССР
Title devised by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Part of "Drawings from the Old Zurich Hospital".
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland.
Subject (Topic):
Mental illness, Psychiatric hospitals, and Sick persons
Translated title supplied by curator., Date and publisher from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Ministry of Health, Latvian SSR and Министерство здравоохранения Латв. ССР
Title devised by curator., Signed in white at bottom right., Date of production devised 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Indonesia.
Subject (Topic):
Hinduism, Death, Monkeys, Sick persons, Prayer, and Balinese (Indonesian people)
Title supplied by curator., Date from item., 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):
Orthopedics, Beds, Fractures (Bones)., Pulleys, Medical equipment & supplies, and Sick persons
Title devised by curator., Artist's signature in grey ink at lower right., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Part of "Drawings from the Old Zurich Hospital".
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Mental illness, Employment, Linen industry, and Sick persons
Title devised by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Part of "Drawings from the Old Zurich Hospital".
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Mental illness, Employment, Linen industry, and Sick persons
البعوض ينقل الملاريا-- اسأل الموظفين الصحيين عن كيفية مكافحته والوقاية منه and Mosquitoes carry malaria....Ask a health official about how to combat and protect against it
Description:
Title and publisher supplied by curator., Date derived from similar posters in collection., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Audio Visual Center, Ministry of Education/USOM
Subject (Geographic):
Iraq. and United States
Subject (Topic):
Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Malaria, Prevention, Public health, Mosquitos, Sick persons, and Foreign relations