Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. In the left scene, the man stands outside a tavern with its fascia lettered "Cordials & compounds" and "Hodg[son's] best", i.e. ale brewed by George Hodgson (and subsequently Mark and Frederick Hodgson) at the Bow Brewery in London: the brewery was rebuilt and enlarged in 1821. The prostitute on the left holds his wallet concealed in her muff while the one on the right tries to steal his fobwatch. A burning gas light on the left indicates night. In the right scene, the moribund patient wearing a nightgown and nightcap sits in an armchair on casters next to the bed, while the physician (a thin elderly bald man in a black suit) looks at him intently from the next chair, and an old nurse stands nearby; medicine bottles on the mantlepiece behind
Alternative Title:
Love, law, & physic and Love, law, and physic
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Second part of title adapted from the farce by James Kenney, Love, law and physic, first performed in London in 1812., "A second state of British Museum Satires No. 14312, above the design as an additional title: SYMPTOMS OF LIFE IN LONDON--OR [cf. No. 14320]."--British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecary Shops -- Exterior.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 28th, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Prostitutes' customers, Prostitution, Taverns (Inns), Gas street lamps, Debt, Debtor and creditor, Collecting of accounts, Physicians, Physician and patient, Patients, Nurses, Muffs, and Drugstores
"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