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A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
Reference: 10765iPart of: Hygeian illustration- Pictures
An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 11857iPart of: Universal pills- Books
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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.
Morison, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1831- Pictures
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
Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [between 1830 and 1839]Reference: 11403i- Pictures
A horrified man discovering that as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills, his nose has turned into a carrot. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 11855iPart of: Universal pills- Books
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An essay, or tract, on the vitality of the warm blood and air / by James Morison ; edited and republished by Elisha North.
Morison, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1835- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 10766i- Books
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.
Morison, James, 1770-1840Date: 1831- Pictures
A tramp exclaiming to another tramp that his severed legs have become whole again as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 10 January 1834Reference: 11854iPart of: Grants oddities- Pictures
A person discovering that they have been transformed into several kinds of vegetables the morning after taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 11851i- 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- Pictures
Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
Date: [1852?]Reference: 563105i- 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- Books
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Morisoniana, or Family advisor of the British College of Health : being a collection of the works of Mr Morison, the hygeist ; comprising 'Origin of life, and true cause of diseases explained' - 'Important advice to the world' - 'Letter on cholera morbus of India’ – ‘Anti-Lancet’ in six numbers – and ‘more new truths’. Forming a complete manual for individuals and families, for every thing that regards preserving them in health and curing their diseases. The whole tried and proved by the members of the British College of Health, as the only true theory and practice of medicine ; and thus furnishing ample testimony that the old medical science is completely wrong. With an appendix, containing numerous well-authenticated cures, and other interesting matter.
Morison, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1829- Pictures
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A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
Date: [1852?]Reference: 563269iPart of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice- Pictures
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.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 1 March 1834Reference: 640599iPart of: Everybody's album & caricature magazine- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 18139iPart of: Hygeian illustration- Pictures
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A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
Date: [1852?]Reference: 563205iPart of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice- Pictures
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A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
Date: [1852?]Reference: 563243iPart of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice- Books
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The practical proofs of the soundness of the Hygeian system of physiology : selected from the appendix of "Morisoniana", as incontrovertible testimonies to the afflicted, of the inestimable value of Morison's vegetable universal medicine : including, with other important matter, "The origin of life, and cause of all disease explained", and an entirely new view of the origin of the small pox virus, and of its being most certainly eradicable, or rendered harmless / by T. Moat.
Date: 1831- Pictures
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.
Date: 1852Reference: 18140iPart of: Hygeian illustration