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  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • All who suffer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, torpid liver, indigestion ... or any form of disease or weakness should avoid poisonous drugs, quack medicines ... and try the marvellous curative efficacity of Mr. C.B. Harness' world-famed bona-fide "Electropathic" belt / the Electropathic & Zander Institute.
  • All who suffer from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, torpid liver, indigestion ... or any form of disease or weakness should avoid poisonous drugs, quack medicines ... and try the marvellous curative efficacity of Mr. C.B. Harness' world-famed bona-fide "Electropathic" belt / the Electropathic & Zander Institute.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • Sidrophel vapulans: or, the quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket / by the author of Medicaster medicatus, [i.e. J. Young] In an epistle to W[illia]m S[almo]n. With a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurrilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of a Blue Book. By the same hand.
  • A travelling healer demonstrating the extraction of a tooth from the mouth of a woman patient, before a crowd of onlookers. Etching attributed to Cornelis de Wael.
  • A Saadi, or Egyptian shaman using snakes and incantations to cure a sick man. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1806, after W.M. Craig.
  • A patient refusing the prescriptions of opposing doctors; referring to Russell's refusal to take any further part in electoral reform. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1837.
  • Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
  • Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
  • Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.