"A bedroom scene. Joanna Southcott sits in an arm-chair, attended by three women and four doctors. Between her legs is a large tub inscribed 'Living Water', into which water gushes from a tap projecting from under her petticoats. She leans back with extended arms, exclaiming: "Shiloh! let not this groupe dismay thee | Come forth into the World I pray thee!" One doctor, Reece, superintends the flow of water, kneeling in profile to the left on a large volume: '[R]eec's Medical Guide'. In his pocket is a paper: 'Account of Wonderful Pregnancies'. Behind him a second doctor sniffs at a tumbler of water, saying, "This is a very pretty rig! | Nothing but water d .... n my Wig!" Two others talk together on the right, one peers through a microscope into a goblet; the other asks: "What do you see in the water, Doctor!" He answers: "Bubbles Doctr "the earth hath bubbles, as the water hath ['Macbeth' I. iii]". I said it was all my eye." Behind him, on the chimney-piece, are a medicine-bottle and the bust of a lank-haired man wearing clerical bands. Three women stand behind Joanna's chair and in front of the curtains of a bed. One (left) holds out a lace cap, saying, "Doctor here is Shiloh's cap! bless me! why he has got a watery head! The next says: "Pray Doctr take care of the cawl if there is one." The third, offering a steaming bowl, says: "Come my blessed Lady sip some of this heavenly caudle I have made you." In the foreground (left), Tozer, dressed as an artisan, sits on a three-legged stool, corking up bottles of water. He is identified by a paper hanging from his pocket: 'Tozer Preacher to the Virgin Johanna'. In front of him are a basket of corks and a paper: 'Sermon on the Birth of Shiloh', Corked bottles are on the left, uncorked ones on the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to on right edge., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 8 (November 1814), before page 321., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes -- Religious mania.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1814, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828
Title from item., Date derived from clothing styles, which appear to be from the Republic of China era., Publisher and artists from the first poster in the series., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chinese Leprosy Relief Organization
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Communicable diseases, Prevention, Leprosy, Diagnosis, Physicians, Microscopes, Blood testing, Sick persons, and Scissors & shears
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Date of original painting: 1896., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
M. Barbot, Edit, Louis Durville, Succ, 60 Rue Madame and Imp. R. Engelmann, (Atelier Belfond), Paris
Subject (Name):
Chéron, Jules, 1839-1900,
Subject (Topic):
Injections, Neurasthenia, Sick persons, Physicians, Nurses, Experiments, Scientific equipment, Microscopes, Laboratories, Medical equipment & supplies, Hypodermic syringes, and Stoves
