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
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., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Purgatives; Unsuccessful treatments; Peruvian Bark; Angelica root & nitre; Infectious diseases., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 20th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Date from copy in Wellcome Collection, website viewed 7/25/2023: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c79rckbf, G. Baldwin was based at 77 Walworth Road, London. It is still in business at 173 Walworth Road., Product claims: A powerful remedy for exzema, scurvy, scrofula, pimples, blood poisoning, irritation of the skin., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
G. Baldwin
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Cinchona bark, Scurvy, Skin, Diseases, and Septicemia