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- Published / Created:
- [20 April 1803]
- Call Number:
- Print00791
- 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., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases.
- 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:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > An address of thanks from the faculty to the Right Hon'ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to the country / [graphic]
