"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 threatening his barricade. Behind his head is inscribed : 'List of Cures \ In 1788,5,000 \ In 1789, 10,000'. The house is at the corner of 'Frith Street'; it has a porch inscribed in large letters 'Mr Swainson N. 21'. A surgeon threatens Swainson with a knife, raising also a leg to kick. A second surgeon kneels on one knee, also holding a knife and glaring ferociously; beside him is a basket of surgeon's instruments. Behind him is a man who directs an enormous syringe at the self-satisfied Swainson. An old man wearing spectacles holds up a 'Pill Box'. These assailants are dominated by a very stout man in the rear who holds up a pestle in one hand, in the other a mortar inscribed 'Mercury the only Specific'. Above his head is poised a nude Mercury holding a caduceus and urging on the attacking force."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vegetable intrenchment and Vegetable entrenchment
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue and Grego., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary medicines -- Velnos Syrup.
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
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1891]
Call Number:
Print01153
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Possibly by Meissonier., Date derived from attributed printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., In margin upper left: Série pol.146., Published: Le Charivari., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sleep; Politics, French; Demons & devils.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat and L. de Bequet, rue Furstemberg 6.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Nightmares, Demons, Government facilities, Medical equipment & supplies, Sleeping, Crowns, and Politics and government
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Date from item., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber surgeons; Office interiors.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Surgeons, Medicine, Rural, Pain, Country life, and Medical equipment & supplies
A group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. A version of the print also published with lettering "The company of undertakers". The three named quacks occupy the top, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it.
Alternative Title:
Company of undertakers
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Nichols, J. The genuine works of William Hogarth. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1808-17, v. 2, page 144., Copy of an engraving by Hogarth that was published in 1736. Cf. No. 2299 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3. See also: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 144., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Criticism of the medical profession -- Dod, Pierce (1683-1754) -- Bamber, Dr.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mapp, Sarah, -1737,, Taylor, John, 1703-1772,, and Ward, Joshua, 1685-1761,
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Quacks and quackery, Costume, Medical equipment & supplies, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[July 1827]
Call Number:
Print01056
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. A scrawny and an obese dog play next to the doctor's stool and bucket. On the wall are a picture of an obese man and a skeletal man and a picture entitled "Specimen of the reduction of a dog, performed by the stomach-pump - in 3 operations"
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath. For other plates in the series, see British Museum online catalogue, registration nos.: 1985,0119.89; 1985,0119.312-313; 1985,0119.316-317; and 1985,0119.324., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Obesity, Therapeutics, Stomach-pump, Costume, History, Medical equipment & supplies, Medical procedures & techniques, Pails, Dogs, Mirrors, and Stools
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Original work created 1887., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Psychiatric; Patients, psychiatric; Hospitals, France; Medical Teaching.
Publisher:
Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris
Subject (Name):
Charcot, J. M. 1825-1893, (Jean Martin), and Salpêtrière (Hospital).
Subject (Topic):
Hypnotism, Hysteria, Medical education, Physicians, Mentally ill persons, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mental institutions
Title etched below image., Place of publication from copy in British Museum., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Physicians caricatured., and Hand-colored.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Enema, Pills, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Bones (Anatomy)., Medical equipment & supplies, and Physicians
Title etched below image., Place of publication from copy in British Museum., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters; Physicians caricatured.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734.
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Enema, Pills, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Bones (Anatomy)., Medical equipment & supplies, and Physicians
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Amputation.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, War wounds, Medicine, Military, Wounds & injuries, Medical equipment & supplies, and Arms & armaments
Title from item., Date and place of publication from item., Below title: Dedié a Monseigneur le Marquis d' Argenson Ministre et Secretaire d'Etat. Gravé d'apres le Tableau Original de David Teniers, Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Tho. Major., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Barber surgeons; Plasters; Office interiors; Chiropody.
Publisher:
chez l'Auteur rue St. Jacques vis-à-vis les Charniers de S. Benoist
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Rural, Surgery, Podiatry, Medical equipment & supplies, Surgical instruments, Wounds & injuries, Bandages, Medical offices, Monkeys, Iguanas, and Owls
