- Creator:
- Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1841]
- Call Number:
- Print00762
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A doctor trying to sell youthfulness potions to an elderly lawyer
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Plate from: New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour. London : Tilt and Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, [1841]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Restoratives -- Theater.
- Publisher:
- Tilt and Bogue
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Lawyers, Costume, and History
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Take in nature of a fee" King John, Act 2, Sc. 1. [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 November 1829]
- Call Number:
- Print01284
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. The lady asks: "O! dear, doctor, has John studied the book?", her doctor replies: "Aye, aye; nothing requir'd but my book, page 75 -gently John! Gently! Page 75". The black servant exclaims: "Eh! eh! Missey, you makey wind for true." The doctor has some resemblance to John Abernethy
- Alternative Title:
- Cure for flatulency
- Description:
- Title etched below image., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published November 30, 1829, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Patients, Household employees, Dogs, Flatulence, Black people, House furnishings, Costume, History, Obesity, and Servants
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medicinal see-saw, or, A cure for flatulency [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [July 1827]
- Call Number:
- Print01056
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. A scrawny and an obese dog play next to the doctor's stool and bucket. On the wall are a picture of an obese man and a skeletal man and a picture entitled "Specimen of the reduction of a dog, performed by the stomach-pump - in 3 operations"
- Description:
- Title etched below image., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath. For other plates in the series, see British Museum online catalogue, registration nos.: 1985,0119.89; 1985,0119.312-313; 1985,0119.316-317; and 1985,0119.324., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, Newgate Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Physicians, Patients, Obesity, Therapeutics, Stomach-pump, Costume, History, Medical equipment & supplies, Medical procedures & techniques, Pails, Dogs, Mirrors, and Stools
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Reduction [graphic]