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21.
Indigestion [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 August 1835]
Call Number:
Print00039
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of a man suffering from indigestion, suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Remnants of food surround him; dinner invitations are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Indigestion, Devil, House furnishings, Demons, and Pain
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Indigestion [graphic]

22.
Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]

Creator:
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, printmaker
Published / Created:
Apl. 15, 1776 [not before 16 May 1776]
Call Number:
Print00020
Collection Title:
After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe
Description:
Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She w...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]

23.
Is camomile a drug? [graphic]

Creator:
Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
1824.
Call Number:
Print00664
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stout elderly man stands in profile to the right, wearing a top-hat and long gaiters. Identified as Mr. Bowden."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Is camomile a drug? [graphic]

24.
Jamie Duff, an idiot commonly called Baillie Duff died 1788 / [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1877]
Call Number:
Print01175
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Portrait; full-length walking to right, left hand tucked into his coat, wearing a tattered suit, a medal on a chain around his neck, torn apron, shoulder-length wig and tricorn with a dark cloth hanging at the back."--British Museum online catalogue,...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Duff, James, -1788
Subject (Topic):
Intellectual disability and People with disabilities
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Jamie Duff, an idiot commonly called Baillie Duff died 1788 / [graphic]

25.
Medicinal see-saw, or, A cure for flatulency [graphic]

Creator:
Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 November 1829]
Call Number:
Print01284
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. The lady asks: "O! dear, doctor, has John studied the book?", her doctor replies: "Aye, aye; nothing requir'd but my book, page 75 -gently John! Gently! Pag...
Alternative Title:
Cure for flatulency
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published November 30, 1829, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Household employees, Dogs, Flatulence, Black people, House furnishings, Costume, History, Obesity, and Servants
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medicinal see-saw, or, A cure for flatulency [graphic]

26.
Mercury and his advocates defeated, or, Vegetable intrenchment [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 November 1789]
Call Number:
Print10029
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A quack doctor (right) stands outside his house surrounded by a pyramid of bottles inscribed 'Velnos Syrup', one of which he holds up, demonstrating its virtues with a complacent smile to a band of rival practitioners (left) who are furiously threate...
Alternative Title:
Vegetable intrenchment and Vegetable entrenchment
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 29, 1789, by W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Swainson, Isaac, 1746-1812
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Interpersonal confrontation, Physicians, Mercury, Patent medicines, Bottles, Sculpture, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mortars & pestles
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Mercury and his advocates defeated, or, Vegetable intrenchment [graphic].

27.
Mixing a recipe for corns [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 1st, 1835.
Call Number:
Print00051
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Mixing a recipe for corns [graphic]

28.
Mr. Obrien the Irish giant the tallest man in the known world being near nine feet high [graphic]

Creator:
Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1803]
Call Number:
Print00384
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of an exceedingly tall man wearing a striped waistcoat and tailcoat, resting his right elbow on an open door while a tailor stands on a chair on the right, measuring his other arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cotter, Patrick, 1759 or 1760-1806
Subject (Topic):
Giants (Persons), Human curiosities, and Tailoring
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Mr. Obrien the Irish giant the tallest man in the known world being near nine feet high [graphic]

29.
Old Q-uiz the old goat of Piccadilly [graphic]

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 February 1796]
Call Number:
Print00234
Collection Title:
Leaf 9. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Queensberry (right), walking beside a buxom young milliner, puts out an arm to touch her. His left hand is in a large muff. He wears a star and from his coat-pocket issue bottles labelled 'Renovating Balsam' and 'Velno's Vegetable Syrup' (see British...
Alternative Title:
Old Quiz the old goat of Piccadilly
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 25th, 1796, by R. Dighton, Charing Cross
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Muffs and Patent medicines
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Old Q-uiz the old goat of Piccadilly [graphic]

30.
Phlebotomising John Bull [graphic]

Creator:
Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[8 March 1830]
Call Number:
Print10275
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull, fat and faint, lies back in an arm-chair with a deal table before him, left foot on cushion; he is in shirt and breeches. Round him are three doctors: Wellington (left), with the over-sleeve of a surgeon, holds a bayonet with which he is a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 8, 1830, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Finance, Public, Property tax, Politicians, Physician and patient, Phlebotomy, Dogs, Costume, History, Hypodermic syringes, Pails, Bayonets, Handguns, and Urination
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Phlebotomising John Bull [graphic]

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