A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.

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10765i
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Hygeian illustration
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See further: Transactions of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy, London 1974, vol. I, no. 3

The three doctors bearing their diplomas are chanting spells and are surrounded by some sinister components of conventional medicine; death with his hour-glass stands in the doorway in judgment

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1 print : lithograph ; image 34.5 x 48 cm.

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The hygeian system of James Morison, the hygeist, exposing the use of poisons, and other mysteries of doctor-craft. ... Lettering continues: "Medicine for the million. Macbeth, act iv. Scene i. (Slightly altered from the text of Shakespere.) A laboratory.- Three doctors discovered." There are also several paragraphs outlining J. Morison's philosophy

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Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

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Wellcome Collection 10765i

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