A mother explaning to a doctor that her baby's medicine has been used up quickly because the whole family tried it - to encourage baby to take some. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Prance, 1923.

  • Prance, Bertram, 1889-
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1923
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15431i
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A mother explaning to a doctor that her baby's medicine has been used up quickly because the whole family tried it - to encourage baby to take some. Reproduction of a drawing by B. Prance, 1923. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Dialogue includes: Doctor. "That bottle of medicine I gave you for baby all gone? Impossible! I told you to give him just a tea-spoon every four hours." Young mother. "Yes - but my husband and I and nurse have each to take a teaspoonful too, so as to induce baby to swallow it."

Publication/Creation

[London], 1923.

Physical description

1 photomechanical reproduction ; border 12.7 x 18 cm

Lettering

Bertram Prance.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 15431i

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