A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. The doctor (Peel) holding a medicine bottle labelled: "New tariff" says: "Come take it off like a man! Its the only remedy for your complaint, I have mixed you something very nice to wash it down." The nurse (Wellington) adds: "Come Johnny there's no use making wry faces, you know you must swallow it." John Bull holding a cup inscribed: "Income tax" retorts: "It's a great deal nastier than Dr. Russell's physic." Lying discarded on the floor are a bottle of medicine labelled; "Russell purge" and a container inscribed: "Barings pills."
Description:
Title from text below image., Print signed using John Doyle's "HB" monogram., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, British -- Baring's Pills -- Russell's Purge.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarke[t] and Printed at the Genl. Lithc. Estabt., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., Baring, Francis Thornhill, 1796-1866., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Legislative bodies, Reform, Physician and patient, Nurses, and Medicine