A doctor trying to administer medicines to a drunken, carbuncled sailor. Coloured etching by W. Elmes after XYZ.

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[Augt 12. 1811]
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11057i
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A doctor trying to administer medicines to a drunken, carbuncled sailor. Coloured etching by W. Elmes after XYZ. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The doctor says: "hold- I must stop your grog Jack- it excites those impulces, and concussions of the thorax, which a company sternutation by which means you are in a sort of a kind of a situation- that your head must be- shaved- I shall take from you only 20 oz of blood- then swallow this draught and box of pills, and I shall administer to you a clyster." The sailor replies: "Stop my grog- belay there doctor shiver my timbers but your lingo bothers me- you may batter my hull as long as you like, but I'll be d---'nd if ever you board me with your glyster pipe."

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London (111 Cheapside opposite Bow Church) : Thos. Tegg, [Augt 12. 1811]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.5 x 34.7 cm

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Jack, hove down- with a grog blossom fever. By XYZ.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IX, London 1949, no. 11825

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Wellcome Collection 11057i

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