Repository: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library / Subject (Topic): Beds

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1. A chip of the old block [graphic]

Creator:: Gleadah, Joshua, active 1815-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:: May 1st, 1832.
Call Number:: Print00904
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A midwife holds out a newborn child, who exhibits a combination its parents' physical traits: the nose of its mother, who lies in bed, and the hook arm, peg leg, glasses and queue of its father, who stands proudly at the foot of the bed. The midwife exclaims, "My good gracious! Hear's [sic] a family likeness for ye. It's Daddy all over with Mammy's nose. Bless it's [sic] little soul. Hey diddle diddle." A fireplace is visible on the right side of the room; a cat claws the bedding and looks up at the child
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Tregear, Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):: Genetics, Prosthesis, Children, Infants, Parents, Midwives, Amputees, Peg legs, Interiors, Beds, Fireplaces, and Cats
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A chip of the old block [graphic]

2. A consultation of doctors on the case of Sr. Toby Bumper!! [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not before 26 February 1807]
Call Number:: Print00155
Collection Title:: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The patient lies in a large bed (right), sourly watching four ugly doctors (left) who sit in consultation, their knees close together. Two put old-fashioned gold-headed canes to their mouths. They say respectively: "We must throw in the Bark" [quinine]; "It is all brought on by Drinking"; What you say is very true"; "We must abate the thirst and then cure the fever". The patient says: "Aye aye. I hear you but Ill tell you how to save half the trouble cure the fever, & send me a nice cool tankard of Madeira and Ill abate the thirst myself"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Consultation of doctors on the case of Sir Toby Bumper
Description:: Title etched below image., Later state; "No. 13" has been removed from upper right corner and replaced with a new plate number, and date has been burnished from end of imprint statement., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, Feb. 26, 1807. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.02.26.01.1., Plate numbered "225" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultations., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.2 x 34.7 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):: Alcohol, Fever, Quinine, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), Beds, and Sick persons
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A consultation of doctors on the case of Sr. Toby Bumper!! [graphic]

3. Ague & fever [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [5 November 1792]
Call Number:: Print20007
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's back, in the middle of the room, Fever, a furry monster with burning eyes, resembling an ape, stands full-face with outstretched arms. On the right the doctor sits in profile to the right at a small table, writing a prescription, holding up a medicine-bottle in his left hand. The room is well furnished and suggests wealth: a carved four-post bed is elaborately draped. On the high chimney-piece are 'chinoiseries' and medicine-bottles. Above it is an elaborately framed landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:: Ague and fever
Description:: Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7448 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: The hypochondriac., One line of quoted text below image, etched on either side of title: "And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, "extremes by change more fierce. Milton., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 226-7., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Ague -- Demons & devils -- Prescription of drugs., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 41.2 x 56.9 cm.
Publisher:: Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Fever, Prescription writing, Sick persons, Monsters, Physicians, Medicines, Writing materials, Desks, Beds, Draperies, and Fireplaces
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ague & fever [graphic]

4. Anne Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury [graphic]

Creator:: Cooper, Robert, active 1795-1836, printmaker
Published / Created:: June 1, 1822.
Call Number:: Print00062
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Published: George Smeeton, Biographia Curiosa, or Memoirs of Remarkable Characters of the Reign of George the Third, London, J. Robins and Co., 1822., 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: Anecdotes.
Publisher:: Published by J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, London
Subject (Name):: Moore, Ann, 1761-1825.
Subject (Topic):: Fasting, Hoaxes, Fasts, Women, and Beds
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Anne Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury [graphic]

5. Assimulat se egrotum, a Thamar cibo reficitur [graphic]

Creator:: Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1612]
Call Number:: Print00921
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Tamar makes cakes in the presence of Amnon
Description:: Title from item. Translated title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., From: The Story of Tamar and Amnon., 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: Uroscopy.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Tamar (Daughter of David). and Amnon (Son of David).
Subject (Topic):: Rape in the Bible, Urine, Analysis, Cookery, Physicians, Sisters, Brothers, and Beds
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Assimulat se egrotum, a Thamar cibo reficitur [graphic]

6. Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [4 April 1812]
Call Number:: Print00188
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "An elderly couple kept awake in their double bed by fleas."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Reissue, with year in imprint altered from "1806" to "1812." For original issue, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8., Verses etched beneath title: Now the weather's sultry grown, sweating late and early. Better far too [sic] sweat alone, oh we swelter rarely - Sweating here, sweating there., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage and married life.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 4th, 1812, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James St., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):: Bedbugs, Bedrooms, Beds, Spouses, Marriage, Fans (Accessories), and Sleepwear
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bug breeders in the dog days [graphic].

7. Concepit Rebeca, et collidebant sese filii in utero eius [graphic]

Creator:: Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1583]
Call Number:: Print00957
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Below image: Cum privil. Regis; Genseos 25., From: Histoire de la Genèse., 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 (Name):: Rebekah (Biblical matriarch)., Jacob (Biblical patriarch)., and Esau (Biblical figure).
Subject (Topic):: Childbirth, Twins, Medicine in the Bible, Births, Midwives, Servants, and Beds
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Concepit Rebeca, et collidebant sese filii in utero eius [graphic]

8. Die Kranke und der Arzt, von Caspar Netscher [graphic]

Creator:: Straub, Carl, 1805-, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1839]
Call Number:: Print20091
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., In lower margin: Gedruckt unter Leitung des Herausgebers. Das Original ist in derselben Grösse; Konigl. Gemälde-Galerie in Dresden., Date of Netscher's original work: 1684., 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 headings: Uroscopy.
Publisher:: Herausgegeben v. Franz Hanfstaengl
Subject (Topic):: Physician and patient, Urine, Analysis, Pulse, Medicines, Physicians, Sick persons, Servants, and Beds
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Die Kranke und der Arzt, von Caspar Netscher [graphic]

9. Doctor Spindle & Miss Maria Mince-Meat [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1777]
Call Number:: Print00906
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Doctor Spindle and Miss Maria Mince-Meat
Description:: Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Verse below title: Worn out with folly & disease / The Doctor thinks his purse can please. / But miss Maria with disdain / Laughs at his hopes & fancied pain / And says a warming pan instead / Would better suit his feeble bed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Pub. [...]17 1777 by J. Walker No.13 Parliament Street
Subject (Topic):: Lust, Old age, Sex, Servants, Purses, Physicians, Crutches, and Beds
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Doctor Spindle & Miss Maria Mince-Meat [graphic].