"Doctor Panurgus" curing the folly of his patients by purgative medicines and chemical cures. Line engraving attributed to Michael Droeshout, 16--.

[London] : Sould [i.e. sold] by P. Stent, [between 1643 and 1667]

1 print : engraving ; sheet 34.4 x 41.1 cm

To this grave doctor millions doe resorte, both from ye cuntry, citty, & ye court, whence though they come as thick as raine can fall, such is his skill as hee can cure them all, for by his waters, druggs, conserves & potions, he purgeth fancies, follies, idle motions ... MD sculpsit. Extensive lettering, transcribed by Hind

Second state of three.

Attributed by Schlueter to Michael Droeshout (ca. 1578-1638), rather than to his son Martin Droeshout the younger (b. 1601)

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 1, London 1870, no. 82

A.M. Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, part II, Cambridge 1955, pp. 362-364

A. Globe, Peter Stent, London printseller, Vancouver 1985, no. 467, plate 192

A.V. Griffiths, The print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689, British Museum Press 1998, no. 91, pp.146-148

June Schlueter, 'Droeshout', Print quarterly, 2010, 27: 253-262

Denis Ribouillault, 'Regurgitating Nature: on a celebrated anecdote by Karel van Mander about Pieter Bruegel the Elder', Journal of historians of Netherlandish art, Winter 2016, 8(1), DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2016.8.1.4

Wellcome Collection 12024i

A French engraving of a similar subject is described in record no. 15851i in this catalogue