Patient turned doctor and Physician forced to take his own stuff
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Title from item., No. 114 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., and Temporary local subject terms: Physicians -- Medicinal: medicine bottles -- Male costume: nightcap -- Nightgown -- Furniture: armchairs -- Furnishings: bed hangings -- Wallpaper.
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Published 12th May, 1794, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Drugs, Prescribing, Revenge, Staffs (Sticks), Physicians, Sick persons, and Medicines
Two renowned quacks demonstrate the superiority of each other's experiments and inventions. On the left, Graham, a quack, fashionable doctor and visionary, stands on the glass insulators used in his experiments with electricity and placed on top of a podium in the form of an E.O.(gaming) table, a reference to the illegal gambling he patronized at his residence. He stradles a long tube signed, "Prime conductor / Gentle restorer / Largest in the world." Behind his table stand two gigantic porters employed at his establishment, named here "Gog" and "Magog." The placard around Gog's neck, "The Temple of Health & of Hymen," is an allusion to Graham's 'celestial bed' for cure of sterility. His opponent on the right side of the image, quack, conjurer and showman Katerfelto, crouches next to a cylindrical conductor signed, "Positively Charg'd." The trident inserted in the back end of the conductor touches a grindstone turned by the devil. Electric sparks shoot from its front end and from Katerfelto's right thumb and index finger. Some sparks drip on a toy cannon in front of him firing at Graham. His podium is made of flimsy planks placed atop the container signed, "Reservoir for Dead Insects destroyd by Dr. Katterf[elto]."
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Title from item., Sheet trimmed trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
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Pubd. March 17th 1783 by W. Humphrey No 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Graham, James, 1745-1794. and Katerfelto, Gustavus, fl. 1782-1783.
Subject (Topic):
Electricity, Experiments, Gog and Magog, Quacks, Devil, Medicines, Gambling, and Wigs
"An illustration to the Oxford Magazine, July 1768: satire on unequal marriage, showing the interior of a church in which an old man and a much younger woman stand before the altar; a clergyman stands behind the communion rail holding open a large book and saying “Thy Wife shall be as the fruitful Vine” . The man says “With my Body I thee Worship”. The tops of two bottles protrude from his pocket, one labelled “T[incture] of Cantharides” and the other “Viper Drops”, both reputed aphrodisiacs. Behind the couple stand a woman holding up a bottle of “Mrs Gibson’s Blessed Medicine” and a lawyer carrying under one arm a “Deed of Settlement Provision for Younger Children”, behind him two young men snigger, one pointing towards the bottles in the bridegroom’s pocket. On the wall at the back of the church is a tablet lettered “Near this Place lies the Body of Thos Steril, Esq Aged 92, who died of a Broken Heart a few Days after his Marriage with a Young Lady”."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., One of text below image: Last Saturday was married at Horn-church, Thos. Feeble, Esqr. aged 90, to Miss Frisky, aged 16. -- Daily adv., Plate from: The Oxford magazine, or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 1 (1768), p. 37., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Oxford magazine
Subject (Topic):
Altars, Churches, Clergy, Couples, Lawyers, Marriage, and Medicines
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from street address., Sheet trimmed within platemark., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Pubd. Decr. 5th. 1829. by S. Gans Southhampton Street
"Satire on the professions of medicine, law and the church with three practitioners in a well furnished interior disputing which is the superior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document; the clergyman a book letterd "Bals. Soul" and the physicial a phial lettered, "Bals. Life". Pictures on the wall show, men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tythes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside. Verses below with scrolling calligraphic decoration."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., and Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Law, physick, and divinity, contend which shall superior be ...
Title from item., Text at poster bottom: G and P / Gould & Portmans Ltd Coverall Service for Advertisers., Date derived from establishment date of Gould & Portmans (an advertising agency) and the statement "Established over 100 years.", Place of publication derived from item., and Text from image: The World-known Medicine for coughs, colds influenza, catarrh stomach chills bronchitis & Kindred Ailments. Always ask for a "Dr. Collis Browne" of all chemists.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Browne, J. Collis 1819-1884. (John Collis),
Subject (Topic):
Drugs, Narcotics, Patent medicines, Medicines, and Advertisements
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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chez l'éditeur, quai de la Megisserie, 82; et Hautcoeur Martinet, rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
Oral medication, Drugs, Medicines, Sick persons, and Bedrooms
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Depicts good use made of a doctor's visit, as everyone in the household is sick or injured., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Lith. de Bernard
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Pulse, Medical fees, Sick persons, Wounds & injuries, Chamber pots, Dogs, Physicians, and Medicines
Title and date from item., Published in Le Grelot, 13 June 1875., Place of publication derived from administration street address listed in upper right: 13, Rue du Croissant., 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: Politics, French.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Elections, Medicines, Politicians, and Politics and government