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A doctor and footman hurling pudding at each other in an attempt to make the obese patient laugh in order to cure his quinsey. Coloured engraving by R. Newton, 1797.
- Newton, Richard, 1777-1798
- Date
- 10 August 1797
- Reference
- 10971i
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Credit: A doctor and footman hurling pudding at each other in an attempt to make the obese patient laugh in order to cure his quinsey. Coloured engraving by R. Newton, 1797. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
Quinsey is a peritonsillar abscess
Publication/Creation
London (53 Fleet Street) : Laurie & Whittle, 10 August 1797.
Physical description
1 print : line engraving and etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.9 x 24.8 cm
Contributors
Lettering
A new way of curing a quinsey. R. Newton delint.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VII, London 1942, no. 9331
Lettering note
Lettering continues: "A doctor of facetious memory, had a troublesome patient, who did not like gargling the throat, the doctor found it an obstinate case, and hit upon the following whimsical idea.- He ordered the cook to make a hot hasty pudding and agreed with the footman to sit down and partake of it.- But the moment poor John had scalded his mouth the doctor began to play upon him most furiously, which John return'd with considerable dexerity.- This curious scene betwixt the doctor and the man, put the old gentleman in so happy a fit of laughter, it entirely cured his quinsey."
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 10971i
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- English
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