A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.

"Blaize" is one of the characters in the novel Old St. Paul's by W.H. Ainsworth. Notices on the inside of the cupboard door are bills of mortality. On the table are a book inscribed "Kemp on the plague", a flask labelled "Aqua ipedemica", a jar inscribed "Balsam of sulphur", a pillbox marked "Rufus", and a handbill marked "Infallible remedy by Constantine Bhsdocanaceis". Blaize drinks from a bottle marked "Plague water", and has in his pocket a bottle labelled "Electuary". On the floor in the left foreground are a book marked "Simon Kelway on the pestilence" and a jug marked "Vinegar"