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1.
Symptoms of life in London, or, Love, law, & physic [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 August 1821]
Call Number:
Print10019
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. In the left scene, the man stands outside a tavern with its fascia lettered "Cordials & compounds" and "Hodg[son's] best", i.e. ale brewed by George Hodgson (and subsequently Mark and Frederick Hodgson) at the Bow Brewery in London: the brewery was rebuilt and enlarged in 1821. The prostitute on the left holds his wallet concealed in her muff while the one on the right tries to steal his fobwatch. A burning gas light on the left indicates night. In the right scene, the moribund patient wearing a nightgown and nightcap sits in an armchair on casters next to the bed, while the physician (a thin elderly bald man in a black suit) looks at him intently from the next chair, and an old nurse stands nearby; medicine bottles on the mantlepiece behind
Alternative Title:
Love, law, & physic and Love, law, and physic
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Second part of title adapted from the farce by James Kenney, Love, law and physic, first performed in London in 1812., "A second state of British Museum Satires No. 14312, above the design as an additional title: SYMPTOMS OF LIFE IN LONDON--OR [cf. No. 14320]."--British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecary Shops -- Exterior.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 28th, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Prostitutes' customers, Prostitution, Taverns (Inns), Gas street lamps, Debt, Debtor and creditor, Collecting of accounts, Physicians, Physician and patient, Patients, Nurses, Muffs, and Drugstores
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Symptoms of life in London, or, Love, law, & physic [graphic]

2.
The sick goose and the Council of Health [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1847]
Call Number:
Print00571
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sickly goose, lying in an armchair, surrounded by anthropomorphic pill bottles, medicine bottles of other remedies, each recommending themself as the cure."--British Museum online catalogue and Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. A bottle says: "I think the poor goose requires a little of Godfrey's cordial", another bottle says: "a bottle of balm of Gilead would revive him." A water pump is suggesting: "I should recommend him to sleep in wet sheets & drink three gallons of pump water daily" a pill says: "let him have a dozen boxes of Blairs gout pills, & put his drumsticks in hot water." A bottle of ointment says: "His case is exactly like the Earl of Aldborough's so nothing can cure him but Holloway's ointment & pills", an old man says: "Parrs life pills I see are the only things that can save him." Another bottle of pills replies: "Life pills! Vegetable pills you mean, let him be well stuffed with Morison's no.1 & 2." A minute man on top of a book entitled "homeopathy" says: "it's cholera clearly and I should prescribe a little unripe fruit - the millonth part of a green gooseberry."
Description:
Title from item., Illustration to: The comic almanack for 1847. London : Imprinted for David Bogue ..., [1847]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Consultations -- Proprietary Remedies -- Godfrey's Cordial -- Balm of Gilead -- Blair's Gout Pills -- Holloway's Ointment -- Holloway's Pills -- Paris Life Pills -- Morison's Pills.
Publisher:
David Bogue
Subject (Name):
Morison, James, 1770-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Alternative medicine, Human behavior, Animal models, Physicians, Patients, Hydrotherapy, Geese, Animals in human situations, Patent medicines, and Bottles
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The sick goose and the Council of Health [graphic]

3.
Reduction [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[July 1827]
Call Number:
Print01056
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. A scrawny and an obese dog play next to the doctor's stool and bucket. On the wall are a picture of an obese man and a skeletal man and a picture entitled "Specimen of the reduction of a dog, performed by the stomach-pump - in 3 operations"
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath. For other plates in the series, see British Museum online catalogue, registration nos.: 1985,0119.89; 1985,0119.312-313; 1985,0119.316-317; and 1985,0119.324., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Obesity, Therapeutics, Stomach-pump, Costume, History, Medical equipment & supplies, Medical procedures & techniques, Pails, Dogs, Mirrors, and Stools
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Reduction [graphic]

4.
L'orthopediste. Monsieur...voici votre fils..., / [graphic]

Creator:
Jacque, Charles Emile, 1813-1894, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1843]
Call Number:
Print00312
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Published in Le Charivari, 20 May 1843., Above image: Les Malades et les Médecins 9., In image lower left: 13., 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: Hunchbacks; Spinal deformities.
Publisher:
Chez Pannier & Cie. Edrs. R. du Croissant, 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Orthopedics, Kyphosis, Patients, Sick persons, Physicians, Medical equipment & supplies, Skeletons, and Families
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > L'orthopediste. Monsieur...voici votre fils..., / [graphic]

5.
[Liebesgebrechen] [graphic]

Creator:
Kohl, Clemens, 1754-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
Print00274
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Plate 44 from: Joseph von Baumeister, Die Welt in Bildern, Vienna: Johann Baptist Wallishausser, 1794., Above image: No. 44., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cripples; Hunchbacks; Idiocy; Deformities; Birth defects; Mutes., and Insert of accompanying text.
Publisher:
Verlag ben Johann Baptist Wallishausser, F. F. priv. Buchhändler
Subject (Topic):
Abnormalities, Human, Deafness, People with disabilities, Blindness, Kyphosis, Patients, Prosthesis, Disabled persons, Crutches, and Peg legs
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Liebesgebrechen] [graphic]

6.
Eigentliche Beschreibung der beschwerlichen Seuchi dess Wurms [graphic]

Creator:
Mannasser, David, -1664, printmaker
Published / Created:
[before 1664]
Call Number:
Print10257
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Actual description of the troublesome epidemic of worms
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., Text is a lengthy dialogue between doctor and patient., 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):
Physician and patient, Epidemics, Worms, Physicians, Patients, and Specimens
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Eigentliche Beschreibung der beschwerlichen Seuchi dess Wurms [graphic]

7.
Medicinal see-saw, or, A cure for flatulency [graphic]

Creator:
Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 November 1829]
Call Number:
Print01284
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. The lady asks: "O! dear, doctor, has John studied the book?", her doctor replies: "Aye, aye; nothing requir'd but my book, page 75 -gently John! Gently! Page 75". The black servant exclaims: "Eh! eh! Missey, you makey wind for true." The doctor has some resemblance to John Abernethy
Alternative Title:
Cure for flatulency
Description:
Title etched below image., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published November 30, 1829, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Household employees, Dogs, Flatulence, Black people, House furnishings, Costume, History, Obesity, and Servants
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medicinal see-saw, or, A cure for flatulency [graphic]

8.
To hell with their profits stop forced drugging of psychiatric inmates. [graphic]

Creator:
Romero, Rachael, 1953-, artist
Published / Created:
[1978]
Call Number:
Poster0643
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., In lower margin: For the Mental Patients Liberation Movement; Not for sale - Please post publicly., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
San Francisco Poster Brigade
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospital patients, Abuse of., Psychiatric hospital care, Patients, Civil rights, Activists, Physicians, Hypodermic syringes, and Money
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > To hell with their profits stop forced drugging of psychiatric inmates. [graphic]

9.
[Comforts of Bath. A consultation of doctors] [art original].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:
before 1827.
Call Number:
Print00242
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., "Rowlandson" in brown ink at lower right., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England).
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Physicians, Gout, Gluttony, and Patients
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Comforts of Bath. A consultation of doctors] [art original].

10.
[Comforts of Bath. A consultation of doctors] [art original].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created:
before 1827.
Call Number:
Print00241
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Date based on artist's date of death., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England).
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Physicians, Gout, Gluttony, and Patients
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Comforts of Bath. A consultation of doctors] [art original].

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