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Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.
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- 1918
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Credit: Two ladies and a man in a turban discussing 'Nigog's magic pillules'. Pen drawing, ca. 1918.
Credit: Wellcome Collection.
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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A large ball in the centre of the room is labelled: "Nigog's magic pillues". Presumably a comment on the short-lived Canadian art journal Le nigog, which was published in Montreal in 1918. The word nigog is a Canadian indigenous term meaning a harpoon for hunting salmon
Publication/Creation
1918
Physical description
1 drawing : pen and ink, with grey wash ; border 21 x 26 cm
Lettering
First lady - "What! That one too!" ...
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 11862i
Lettering note
Lettering continues: 'Second ditto - "Yes, that'll make the third he will have swallowed since we have tarried here." Patient. "Peace! Be quiet! I'm busy! - I'm but a weak & weary Nabob who, giving way to unrestrained appetite, has got into a pickle - before I sup the box has to be cleared - these pills are greater than a sovereign remedy 'gainst all the ills that our dyspeptic flesh is heir to - "For, 'sings the poet' they're worth a guinea a box."'
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- English
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