Call Number: 803.04.20.01+ - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: [20 April 1803]
Call Number:: 803.04.20.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: On the left an emaciated patient sits in a commode chair next to a table filled with medicine bottles with labels reading: James's Powders, [La]udanum, Sweating Draught, Opening Draught, Emetic. Beneath are a cask labeled "Peruvian bark" and a jug labeled 'Garlic". From the right a group of nine physicians carry letters of thanks to their "friend" Influenza and converse about the benefits they have reaped from his visitation to the city
Description:: Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Newbery, Francis, 1743-1818.
Subject (Topic):: Influenza, Opium, Cinchona bark, Laxatives, Death, Clothing & dress, Medicines, and Physicians
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An address of thanks from the faculty to the Right Hon'ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to the country / [graphic]