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Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.

A person discovering that they have been transformed into several kinds of vegetables the morning after taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph.

A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.

A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.

A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.

A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.

A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.

Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.

A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.

A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.

A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

Effects of medical treatments. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1850.

Third edition of The practical proofs of the soundness of the Hygeian system of physiology : giving incontrovertible testimony to the afflicted, of the inestimable value of Morison's vegetable universal medicines ... with most important information connected with the succesful promulgation of the Hygeian system in the United States of America.

The practical proofs of the soundness of the Hygeian system of physiology giving incontrovertible testimony to the afflicted, of the inestimable value of Morison's vegetable universal medicines : including, with other matter, 'The origin of life, and cause of all disease explained'; an entirely new view of the origin of the small pox virus [by T. Moat] and of its being most certainly eradicable, or rendered harmless and sundry cases of cure, with most important information connected with the successful promulgation of the Hygeian system in the United States of America / [James Morison].

Morisoniana; or family adviser of the British College of Health. Being a collection of the works of Mr. Morison, the hygeist ... forming a complete manual for individuals and families, for every thing that regards preserving them in health and curing their diseases ... comprising 'Origin of life ...' 'Important advice to the world'- 'Letter on cholera morbus of India'-'Anti-Lancet ...'- and 'More new truths' ... With an appendix, containing a short treatise on ... small pox / [by T. Moat], etc.

Morisoniana, or, Family adviser of the British College of Health : being a collection of the works of Mr. Morison, the hygeist ... Forming a complete manual for individuals and families, for every thing that regards preserving them in health and curing their diseases ... With an appendix, containing a short treatise on ... small pox.

An invalid with an undiagnosed illness, wrapped up and being pushed in a wheelchair. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.

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Morison, James, 1770-1840

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An invalid with an undiagnosed illness, wrapped up and being pushed in a wheelchair. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.