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Robert Macaire as a doctor selling, at a so-called 'free consultation', bottles of water for twenty francs each and glasses of water for 10 centimes each. Lithograph by H. Daumier, c. 1835.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Reference: 16662iPart of: Les Robert-Macaire- Books
Making humans : complete texts with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays / edited by Judith Wilt.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.Date: [2003], ©2003- Pictures
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
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James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: 1688Reference: 17525i- Pictures
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Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.Reference: 22092i- Pictures
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Pictures
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Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 2 May 1803Reference: 12193i