Title from item notation in pencil., Signed in pencil lower right margin: Rockwell Kent., Date provided by curator., In pencil lower left margin: Trial Proof., Illustration for McCall's magazine., Lithograph in two colors., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Operations; Surgical Amphitheater; Surgeons and Surgery.
Subject (Topic):
Medical education, Surgery, Physicians, Medical students, and Nurses
Caricature of a young surgeon undergoing questioning by his peers. A satire on the Royal College of Surgeons, London and "Plate from the 'Scourge', ii. 263 (second state). Members of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons sit on the outer side of a horse-shoe table, four on each side of the Master, who sits in a raised chair, wearing a gown, bands, and hat. On the table before him are a skull and bone. The examinee, trembling and insignificant, stands on the extreme left, facing a man who has risen from his chair to say angrily, "Describe, the Organs of Hearing"; the latter's neighbour listens intently through an ear-trumpet. The next Examiner sleeps with folded arms; next, and on the Master's right, is a man turning his back on the Master and holding his nose while he studies a book: 'Question upon Wind I Suppose a man was to . . . What w . . . you . . .' The aged and toothless Master (Sir Charles Blicke, 1745-1815) listens with senile intensity through an ear-trumpet. On his left two Scots, ungainly fellows wearing tartan, are absorbed in conversation; one says: "you paid too dear for it brother Sergeant," the other takes snuff from a mull. Next is a fat man with swathed gouty legs; crutches lie on the ground beside him; he has a paper 'THH [sic] COW POX CRONICLE', suggesting that he is Jenner (not a surgeon). He has a pen in his mouth, spectacles on forehead, and looks sideways at his neighbour, a lean old man who is intently counting piles of coin. In the foreground is a trough containing books; a man stands near it holding a large volume and looking towards examiner and examinee. A man leaves the room (right) looking over his shoulder with shocked distress, and exclaiming "Oh!" In his pocket is a paper: 'A Peter on the Gravel'. The Master's chair is decorated with skulls; from its back projects a striped pole supporting a skull which serves as a wig-block, emblem of the old connexion between surgeons and barbers, see No. 9092, &c. Under the chair are money-bags, one inscribed '£50', the other 'For Shirt'. Behind the chair are two niches or alcoves in each of which a skeleton is suspended by the neck from a rope; one (left) is 'Govenor [sic] Wall' [see No. 9845], the other 'Lady Brownrigg'. These are symmetrically flanked by four pictures: [1] a prizefight between a black pugilist and a skeleton at which the Master of the College presides, standing before his chair. [2] Saartjie Baartman, 'the Hottentot Venus', see No. 11577, &c., stands in profile to the right while 'Nobody', a man whose legs are jointed to his shoulders as in No. 12438, &c., points with amusement at her huge posterior. [3] A young woman without arms or legs, placed on a bergere, is inspected by an ugly man, who points at her. [4] A brazen cow (or golden calf) is supported on a garlanded pillar on whose base is a crown; round this men, apparently surgeons, dance gleefully, holding hands in a ring. On the extreme left of the wall is an ornate clock, showing that the time is eleven. It is topped by a grinning figure of Time holding an hourglass. On the ground is a paper: 'At the sign of the Cow's Head Lincolns Inn Feilds'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 2 (October 1811), page 263., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Examination for license -- Vaccination controversy.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1st, 1811, by M. Jones, 5 Newgate Strt
Subject (Name):
Blicke, Charles, Sir, 1745-1815, Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835., Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817., Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832, Dundas, David, Sir, 1735?-1820., Biffin, Sarah, 1784-1850., Baartman, Sarah, Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823, Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802., Brownrigg, Elizabeth, 1720?-1767., and Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine and art, Physicians, Questioning, Surgery, Surgeons, Table, Deafness, Gout, Medical students, and Hearing aids
Title from item., Two lines of quote below image: The blood & vitals from her wounds he drew, and fed the hounds that helped him to pursue. Dryden., Plate from: The Political register and London museum. London : Printed for J. Almon, v. 2 (1768), p.385., Temporary local subject terms: Riots: reference to St. George's Fields, Southwark -- Weapons: dagger., and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
J. Almon
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Bath, Thomas Thynne, Marquis of, 1734-1796, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Gout, Crutches, Surgery, and Tableware
Marcenay de Ghuy, Antoine de, 1724-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
Print00944
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Tobit regaining his sight
Description:
Title from item., Translated title supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., In margin upper center: No. 37., In margin below title: Dedié a Monsieur Le Marquis De Voyer d'argenson ; Gravé d'après l'original de son Cabinet, haut de 17. pouces Sur 14 de large. Par son très humble et très obeissant Serviteur De Marcenay., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
ches l'auteur rue des vieux Augustins près l'Ègout
Subject (Topic):
Medicine in the Bible, Blindness in the Bible, Blindness, Eye, Surgery, Older people, Angels, Spectators, Spinning apparatus, and Dogs
Title and date from item., Title page from: François Tolet, Traité de la Lithotomie, Utrecht: A. Schouten, 1693., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez A. Schouten
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Lithotomy, Medical tools & equipment, Sick persons, and Physicians
Title from item., Date derived from publication in: Trials of a public benefactor : as illustrated in the discovery of etherization / by Nathan P. Rice. New-York : Pudney & Russell, 1859., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence in 1859., This demonstration of etherization occurred in 1846., 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: Hospitals, U.S.A.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Morton, W. T. G. 1819-1868. (William Thomas Green), and Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856.
Subject (Topic):
Massachusetts General Hospital, Anesthesia, Anesthesiology, Surgery, Operating rooms, Physicians, Sick persons, and Medical equipment & supplies
Interior of a surgery: a surgeon sits on a barrel and operates on the lower left leg of a peasant man who is writhing in pain. An old woman stands behind them with her arm in a sling. Shelves are on the walls in the background; a stuffed animal hangs from the ceiling
Description:
Title devised by curator., Possibly after a painting by Brouwer, first owned by Sir Robert Walpole and subsequently by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. See: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842], page 132., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 156 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Interior of a surgery: a surgeon sits on a barrel and operates on the lower left leg of a peasant man who is writhing in pain. An old woman stands behind them with her arm in a sling. Shelves are on the walls in the background; a stuffed animal hangs from the ceiling
Description:
Title devised by curator., Possibly after a painting by Brouwer, first owned by Sir Robert Walpole and subsequently by Horace Walpole, that was kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. See: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole. [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842], page 132., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 201 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 30.7 x 26.1 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied 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 Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Stones, head.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Folly, Pain, Surgery, Physicians, Sick persons, Rocks, Medical tools & equipment, and Medical offices
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from style of work., Sheet trimmed left., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.