A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1842.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
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23 April 1842
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13437i
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A doctor and nurse prescribing new medicines for their patient; representing Britain under a new government. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1842. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The doctor (Peel) holding a medicine bottle labelled: "New tariff" says: "Come take it off like a man! Its the only remedy for your complaint, I have mixed you something very nice to wash it down." The nurse (Wellington) adds: "Come Johnny there's no use making wry faces, you know you must swallow it." John Bull holding a cup inscribed: "Income tax" retorts: "It's a great deal nastier than Dr. Russell's physic." Lying discarded on the floor are a bottle of medicine labelled; "Russell purge" and a container inscribed: "Barings pills."

Publication/Creation

[London] (26 Haymarke[t]) : T. McLean, 23 April 1842 ([London] : Printed at the Genl. Lith. Estabt.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

Lettering

A bitter draught. HB.

References note

Too late for the British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

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Wellcome Collection 13437i

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