A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.

Date:
According to Act of Parliamt. 1748
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20666i
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Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was a medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of Tower Hill, St. Paul's Cathedral and Covent Garden. He offered for sale his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was represented in several caricatures: William Hogarth referred to him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning

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[London] : Sold in May's Building Covent Garden & 100 more, According to Act of Parliamt. 1748.

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1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 32.8 cm

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Quackery unmask'd, or, empiricism display'd. Dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles, and Æsculapius physician extraordinary to the dead. ...

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. III pt. I, London 1877, no. 3019

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Wellcome Collection 20666i

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