As described in the Gospel of St John, Chapter V, Christ is shown healing the sick beside the Pool of Bethesda, as an angel observes from above. At the center Christ reaches out to a crippled man who sits beside the Pool of Bethesda, shown here with an ulcer on his leg. Among the others looking for cures is a girl with Down's Syndrome (?), a woman with consumption or tuberculosis; a blind man with a stick; a man with jaundice (or melancholia or depression); a bearded man with gout and a distressed woman beside him with an injured breast; a child in the foreground carries a crutch. In the background, a servant of a naked woman pushes aside a mother with a sick baby. The mistress is most probably suffering from gonorrhea, as indicated by the rashes on her skin. Finally, in the foreground on the extreme right a pitiful man with an emaciated face full of pain and a hand on his swollen abdomen uses a crutch to approach the pool
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Vol. II, No. 57"--Lower left., "Size of the picture, 13f, 8i by 20f, 3i in length."--Lower left, below volume number., "St. John Chp. V."--Lower right., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 24th 1772 by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ,
Subject (Topic):
Bethesda, Pool of., Biblical events, Diseases, Healing, Miracles, People with disabilities, and Sexually transmitted diseases
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
Title etched below image., Date from item., Printmaker's name supplied by curator., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Inscription below and within image: Sore Throat ; Yellow Fever : Dry Gripes., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub by Willm. Holland No.50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)., Yellow fever, Tropical medicine, Heat, Zodiac, Diseases, Scythes, Scorpions, Hourglasses, Smoking, Fans (Accessories)., Parasols, Newspapers, Colonies, and Social life and customs
Title from text above and below image., Caption below image in lower left: Sore throat., Caption below image in lower right: Dry gripe[sus?]., Description based on imperfect impression; final digit of year in imprint has been erased from sheet and a "3" written in its place., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Sofa -- Hell -- Sun -- Sickle -- Zodiac signs: Crab -- Lion., and Print caption in lower right of sheet has been slightly altered in ms.
Publisher:
Pub. by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica and Jamaica.
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Opium abuse, Yellow fever, Diseases, Devil, Drug abuse, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Umbrellas
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from similar advertisements in newspapers., Text continues: It Has No Equal. Permanent Relief for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Lame Back, Sore Throat, Bruises, Etc., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Buck Printing Company, Boston
Subject (Topic):
Patent medicines, Analgesics, Rheumatism, Backache, Throat, Diseases, and Sick persons
Title from item., Date derived from poster style and printing company history., In margin lower left: A.C.--249/5,000., Text is also in Hindi., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Issued by the Director General of Health Services, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Published by the Advertising Branch, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India and Printed by Messrs Imperial Art Cottage, Calcutta 8.
Subject (Topic):
Public health, Communicable diseases, Prevention, Sexually transmitted diseases, Children, Diseases, and Infants
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's nationality., From: Les Oeuvres de miséricorde., 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: Religion & medicine.
Publisher:
le Blond excud avec Privilege du Roy
Subject (Topic):
Diseases, Visiting the sick, Church work with the sick, Sick persons, Families, Bedrooms, Children, and Crying
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Stomach, Diseases, Patent medicines, Sick persons, Pain, and Vomiting
Title and date from item., From: Album - Exhibition Set, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them. Published in Moscow by the People's Committee on Health, 1928., Poster includes graphs with rates of venereal disease for those who are single, married, sober, intoxicated, etc., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Narkomzdrav, RSFSR
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Diseases, and Risk factors
Title and date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Place of publication based on printmaker's place of residence in 1902., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil lower left, additional inscription, probably publisher., and Stamp in lower left margin.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Older people, Diseases, Geriatrics, Women, and Sick persons
