Stories
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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The power of unicorns
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
Catalogue
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Chronicles in cartoon : a record of our own times. XI. Science and medicine.
Robinson, Bertram Fletcher.Date: [1906]- Books
In sickness and in health : medicine and health care in 19th century French prints a salute to the New Jersey pharmaceutical industry The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 10-August 19, 1984 / by Patricia Eckert Boyer.
Boyer, Patricia Eckert.Date: [1984], ©1984- 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- Pictures
Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician examining a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block after A. Gill, 1872.
Gill, André, 1840-1885Date: 28 juillet 1872Reference: 657722i- 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