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1. "When a man's a little bit poorly" the celebrated comic song as sung by Mr. C. Taylor, the words by T. Hudson, the music arranged by J. Blewitt / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Lisle, Joe, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1830]
- Call Number:
- Print01034
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Six scenes narrating the fuss caused by a man's progression from minor cold to supposed major illness and then sudden recovery. The man's initial plea for nursing with his cold leads onto the summoning of a doctor and procurement of an abundance of potions. The terminal illness which seems to develop throws the houshold into grief-stricken turmoil and the doctors into confusion. The patients miraculous recovery naturally surprises everyone. Above the scenes is a skeleton emerging from a doctors' hat holding a cane and medicine bottle
- Description:
- Title from text below images., Date of publication based on artist Joe Lisle's activity dates (1828-30); see British Museum online catalogue., A title page for sheet music., "Ent. Sta. Hall.", "Price 1/6.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Songs -- Sheet music.
- Publisher:
- Published by Clementi & Co., 26 Cheapside and J. Hull
- Subject (Topic):
- Sick, Psychology, Cold (Disease), Physician and patient, Nurses, Convalescence, Medicine, Illness anxiety disorder, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "When a man's a little bit poorly" the celebrated comic song as sung by Mr. C. Taylor, the words by T. Hudson, the music arranged by J. Blewitt / [graphic]
2. Les étrennes, ou, La petite vèrole [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1815?]
- Call Number:
- 815.00.00.18
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A well-dressed young woman visiting her smallpocked uncle, delivers three oranges. Dressed in a robe and nightcap, he sits in a upholstered chair with his feet on a pillow, his face and hands covered in pustules; beside him is a table with a pitcher, glass and carafe. On the wall behind is a landscape; to the left a fireplace
- Alternative Title:
- Petite vèrole
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., An 'E' enclosed within a heart, etched lower left below image., Date from Bibliothèque nationale de France., "Déposé à la direction Gale.", and Mounted on secondary support.
- Publisher:
- Chez Gautier rue Poupée, no. 7
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Smallpox, Diseases, Sick persons, Clothing & dress, Sick, and Visiting the sick
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Les étrennes, ou, La petite vèrole [graphic]
3. The rapacious quack [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [...] [not before 9 November 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.11.09.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family and "The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a medicine bottle labelled 'as before'. The physician, a well-dressed man wearing a bag-wig, is about to leave the room (right); he puts coins into the hand of a young woman holding an infant. The room is papered, a half-tester bed with curtains stands against the wall. Tea-things are ranged along the chimney-piece, over which is a framed picture of a Christ healing the blind man."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., A publication date of approximately 1760, later amended to 1783, was originally suggested in the British Museum catalogue; however, the British Museum has since acquired an impression with an intact publication date of "9 Novr. 1782." See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.3161., Description based on an imperfect impression; publication date erased from sheet., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: The rapacious quack quite vext to find, his patient poor, and so forsaken; a thought soon sprung up in his mind, to take away a piece of bacon., Companion print to: The benevolent physician., and Plate numbered "487" in lower left.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Quacks and quackery, Avarice, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Clothing & dress, Diseases, Families, Poverty, Quacks, Bacon, Children, Costume, Country life, and Sick
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rapacious quack [graphic].
