Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles and Aescupalius physician extraordinary to the dead. [graphic]

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Title: Quackery unmask'd, or, Empiricism display'd dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles and Aescupalius physician extraordinary to the dead. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Empiricism display'd
Quackery unmasked
Empiricism displayed
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created: according to act of Parliamt, 1748.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Gardern
Description: Title from item.
Publisher's name from address in imprint.
Publisher's announcement following imprint: & 100 more.
Quotation from Ovid's Metamorphoses below image: In nova fert animis mutatas dicere formas corpora. Dii [sic] cœptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis. Oivd, Met. Lib. 1.
Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Thus modern empiricks are taught the art, By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part ...
Temporary local subject terms: Lecture Halls -- Quackery -- Quacks: 'Baron Schwanberg' -- 'G. West' -- 'Dr. Rock' -- Edmund Neeler, 'Carpenter Hamersmith' -- Medicine: quack pills -- Quack powders -- Medical implements: reference to clyster pipe -- Birds: crows -- Owl -- Animals: dogs -- Ass -- Sheep -- Horse -- Skulls.
Watermark: countermark IV.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.2 x 32.7 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Edition: [Later state].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 748.05.17.01

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1748
Etchings England London 1748
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1748
England > London > 1748

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8625614
Object ID (OID): 10714428