"Hopeless Cases. Doctor Brown-Sequard Randall. Take Them Away. They're Too Dead for Treatment."

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Title
"Hopeless Cases. Doctor Brown-Sequard Randall. Take Them Away. They're Too Dead for Treatment."
Creator
From the Collection: Hansen, Bert, 1944-
Contributor
From the Collection: Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896
From the Collection: Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
From the Collection: Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894
From the Collection: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
From the Collection: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
From the Collection: Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931
From the Collection: Wales, James Albert, 1852-1886
From the Collection: Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935
Published / Created
1889 August 31
Description
Judge (16:411), page 336-337. By Grant Hamilton, note the masthead is Judge, not The Judge. On the left side, Dr. Brown-Sequard Randall sits in an upholstered green wing chair, holding a bottle of fluid in left hand and a large syringe with hollow needle in his right. The needle is curved at the end, with its hole on the side just where the curve starts, the syringe is a simple piston. The Brown-Séquard figure is Samuel Jackson Randall, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, who had lost President Cleveland's favor two years earlier. He had been a protectionist since the 1860s despite that position's being unpopular in his party. He is now well supplied with two large tanks of "Protectionism" as an "Elixir of Life." But it's too late, he says, for this rejuvenation juice to revive the Democratic Party and its debilitated Free Trade policy. The central figures are Charles A. Dana (with a tag to identify him as owner-editor of the New York Sun) and Joseph Pulitzer (proprietor of the New York World, apparently recognizable without a label), who have brought a tiger (the Democratic Party, see tag on the tail) in for Doctor Randall's protectionism treatment. At the right, "Free Trade" is being carried in by two men coming from the U.S. Capitol, visible behind them in the doorway: Roger Quarles Mills, Congressman (later Senator) from Texas, and Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Watterson, not "Waterson" (Is the mis-spelling a further joke on this fellow editor?) was an aggressive advocate of free-trade ideas. By chance, Randall died at age 62 in April 1890, less than a year after this cartoon appeared. Sequard appears several times in caption and on the inside, but never with an accent. June (and early July?) issues seem to have several verbal quips about doctors mistakenly thinking a man dead and wanting to bury him. Hansen database #2049.
Provenance
Gift of Bert Hansen in multiple accessions between 2015 and 2017.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Ms Coll 67
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Citation
Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public Health in Popular Graphic Art. Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

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