224 results filtered with: Quacks and quackery
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James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1833Reference: 10764i- Pictures
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A quack doctor assisting a voluptuous female patient with group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after J. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11828i- Pictures
A greedy medical practitioner demanding a section of bread or cake (?) for payment from a poor family. Stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1784, after E. Penny.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: 1 June 1784Reference: 20795i- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Mezzotint after W. Hogarth, 1736.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2498833i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares to a small group of country people. Engraving by W. French after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Reference: 20491i- Pictures
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A lady asks a pharmacist about his enlargening potion; he displays the bump on his head as proof of its efficacy. Process print after a wood engraving.
Reference: 17267i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
Wouwerman, Philips, 1619?-1668.Date: 1743Reference: 21185i- Archives and manuscripts
M0006940: A charlatan doctor in the wood of Haarlem
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint by J. Gillray, 1801.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 11 November 1801Reference: 11820i- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling a medicine to a man whose son has a poorly arm. Engraving by P. da Colle after N. Cavalli after F. Maggiotto.
Maggiotto, Francesco, 1750-1805.Reference: 20878i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of assistants and snakes to a captivated audience, Tianjin, China. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1858, after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: 1858Reference: 21435i- Pictures
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Doctor Humbug, an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage with the aid of an assistant. Coloured etching, 1799.
Date: 21 July 1799Reference: 20883i- Archives and manuscripts
Lettsom, John Coakley (1744-1815), Physician
Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.Date: 1766-1812Reference: MSS.3245-3249, 5370 and 8684- Pictures
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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: Published for the Satirist July 1st. 1809Reference: 12204i- Pictures
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An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 11819i- Pictures
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A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.
NoParty, Nathaniel, active 1812.Date: 1 Feb[r]u[a]ry 1812Reference: 38480i- Books
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L'idée et le triomphe de la vraie medecine, en forme d'apologie. : Ouvrage non-seulement curieux & instructif, mais encore utile & profitable, tant au public qu'à tous ceux qui veulent connoître de la médecine. / Par M. Callot, docteur en médecine de l'Université de Montpellier.
Callot, François Joseph, 1690-1780.Date: M. DCC. XLII. [1742]- Pictures
A man composed of testimonials for quack-medicines takes some medicine from a bottle in the vain hope of curing his syphilis or gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1944.
Karsakov, Leonard, 1917-1993.Date: 1944Reference: 678378i- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in the square of the Grand Duke of Florence. Lithograph by Levilly after F. Pieraccini.
Pieraccini, Francesco.Reference: 20907i- Pictures
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Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Colour line engraving after M. Laroon.
Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.Reference: 20590i- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+24.
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Date: Published according to Act of Parliament A.D. 1768Reference: 643336i- Pictures
An itinerant salesman selling amulets against the bites of snakes and other animals to a crowd of people who purchase them eagerly. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1815Reference: 20943i- Pictures
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
Reference: 20647i- Pictures
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A travelling medicine vendor on horseback making a speech to a crowd of people. Engraving by T. Slater, ca. 1713.
Date: [1713?]Reference: 575019i