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Medicine & pharmacy in American political prints, 1765-1870 / by William H. Helfand.
Helfand, William H.Date: 1978- Pictures
Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician holding up a baby boy just delivered of a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1872.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 4 Août 1872Reference: 657723i- Pictures
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A man with influenza, taken in hand by a doctor, surrounded by dancing politicians. Wood engraving by Pépin (E. Guillaumin), 1889.
Pépin, 1842-Date: 12 January 1890Reference: 31072i- Digital Images
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Caricatural illustration of ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)
Madeleine Kuijper illustraties- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Pictures
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Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.
Date: 1918Reference: 11862i- Digital Images
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A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by
G. M. Woodward- Pictures
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A man barking and drinking port, following a doctor's orders. Coloured aquatint by I. Wilson after M. Egerton, 182-..
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1825?]Reference: 11877i- Pictures
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A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828.Date: 1827Reference: 11893i- Pictures
An elderly man throwing his head back to swallow some pills and in the process tossing water all over himself. Coloured aquatint after M. Egerton, 1827.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1827Reference: 11861i- Pictures
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W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: June 22nd 1889Reference: 13793i- Books
She may look clean, but ... / Michael Rhode.
Rhode, Michael.Date: [©1994-]- Pictures
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A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Coloured etching by N. Heideloff, 1807, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: October 1807Reference: 11876iPart of: Miseries of human life- Pictures
A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1832]Reference: 16136i- Pictures
A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Reference: 20990i- Pictures
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A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17852i- Pictures
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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.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i- Pictures
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Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Process print, 19--, after G. Cruikshank, 183-.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 21035i- Books
Drawing on tragedy / by Mike Rhode.
Rhode, Michael.Date: [©1994-]- Pictures
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A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.Date: 1 August 1835Reference: 11869i- Pictures
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Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, as a doctor admitting that he mislabelled medicine bottles; referring to misgovernment of Ireland and Scotland. Pencil drawing, ca. 180-.
Date: [180?-]Reference: 24967i- Pictures
An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
Orr, Monro S.Date: 1913Reference: 15801i- Pictures
Britannia as a patient who is in danger of death owing to disagreement between her three doctors over their competing remedies; representing the weakness of Britain during the replacement of Addington by Pitt as Prime Minister and the exclusion of Fox. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 20 May 1804Reference: 12194i- Pictures
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.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 5 November 1835Reference: 11859iPart of: Dawson's magic- Pictures
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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.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 12 December 1837Reference: 12248iPart of: HB Sketches