"The Pump Room at Bath is crowded with people striving to see Queen Charlotte, who sits in an arm-chair facing the low barrier surrounding the pump. She holds a goblet, and puts a hand to her waist, exclaiming "Oh! my belly! my belly! Oh the water the water!" She wears a fashionable bonnet with a fringed shawl over her long limp gown, with high-heeled shoes of antique pattern. Her snuff-box is on the ground. Two women stand by her, one with a bottle of 'Old Tom' saying "Here Madam Here's Old Tom [strong gin], they say he's a famous Docter for the Belly Ache"; the other says: "let me advice you to put Old Tom in.!" The Duke of Clarence in naval uniform leans on the back of the Queen's chair, saying, "Brandy the specific for the Belly Ache George & I always recomend Brandy." A man pumps (right); an elderly woman hands glasses to the company who, with the Queen, are all, with two exceptions, behind a red rope attached to the barrier. Those behind stand on tables and chairs to see the Queen. A doctor looks towards her, saying, "Three seconds more will produce a Motion." Others say: "Well I declare I see nothing extroardinary to look at!!"; "Well Jhan she doant look a bit better than Oul Granny"; "Who said she did? Eh Dame.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Zomersetshire folk in a maze and Somersetshire folk in a maze
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Spas., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of sheet: Price 1s.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1818 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic):
Hydrotherapy, Health resorts, Water pumps, Drinking vessels, Springs, Mineral waters, and Stomach aches
"A bedroom scene. Joanna Southcott sits in an arm-chair, attended by three women and four doctors. Between her legs is a large tub inscribed 'Living Water', into which water gushes from a tap projecting from under her petticoats. She leans back with extended arms, exclaiming: "Shiloh! let not this groupe dismay thee | Come forth into the World I pray thee!" One doctor, Reece, superintends the flow of water, kneeling in profile to the left on a large volume: '[R]eec's Medical Guide'. In his pocket is a paper: 'Account of Wonderful Pregnancies'. Behind him a second doctor sniffs at a tumbler of water, saying, "This is a very pretty rig! | Nothing but water d .... n my Wig!" Two others talk together on the right, one peers through a microscope into a goblet; the other asks: "What do you see in the water, Doctor!" He answers: "Bubbles Doctr "the earth hath bubbles, as the water hath ['Macbeth' I. iii]". I said it was all my eye." Behind him, on the chimney-piece, are a medicine-bottle and the bust of a lank-haired man wearing clerical bands. Three women stand behind Joanna's chair and in front of the curtains of a bed. One (left) holds out a lace cap, saying, "Doctor here is Shiloh's cap! bless me! why he has got a watery head! The next says: "Pray Doctr take care of the cawl if there is one." The third, offering a steaming bowl, says: "Come my blessed Lady sip some of this heavenly caudle I have made you." In the foreground (left), Tozer, dressed as an artisan, sits on a three-legged stool, corking up bottles of water. He is identified by a paper hanging from his pocket: 'Tozer Preacher to the Virgin Johanna'. In front of him are a basket of corks and a paper: 'Sermon on the Birth of Shiloh', Corked bottles are on the left, uncorked ones on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to on right edge., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 8 (November 1814), before page 321., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes -- Religious mania.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828
"John Bull, an ungainly yokel, short and stout, stands between Melville (left) and Pitt (right). Melville, wearing Highland dress, sits full face, vomiting a shower of guineas (as in British Museum Satires Nos. 10392, 10400) into a tub. Pitt, rather behind and in profile to the right, rests his elbow on a table and supports his head; a similar tub is before him on the ground. On the table are two large books, 'Debates' and 'Interest Tables'. In the foreground lies a large tankard inscribed 'Whtbr[ead]'. John holds a decanter of 'Conscience Emetic'; he grins, saying, "It do work em rarely to be zure it be better zo than having a continual load on the Stomach tho!" Melville says: "Mercy on me now sick I am! curse this Whitbreads Porter oh Billy, Billy, how is it we you Mon I shall disgorge every thing to the last Baubee!" Pitt, who is desperately thin, looks far more ill and miserable but is not vomiting; he answers: "O Lord afraid I shall reach my heart up by and bye! I never was so sick in all my life.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
John Bulls recipe
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- Emetics.
Publisher:
Pubd. by R. Rapine, Great Knaves Acre, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811, and Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Vomiting, Coins, Sick persons, Books, Wash tubs, and Drinking vessels
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three fashionable dressed men stand to the left consulting with a man in his nightshirt and cap who addresses them from his bed. At the foot of the bed are three wigs on stands. An elder woman in a cap opens the curtains on the window to the right
Alternative Title:
Bonnell Thornton's consultation of physicians
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.8.140., Six lines of text, labeled "anecdode [sic] of Bl. Thornton," following curly bracket after title: Addison very humourasly [sic] compared physicians to an army of antient Britons ..., Plate numbered "307" in the upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Physicians, Rugs, Sleepwear, Wigs, and Staffs (Sticks)