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.

London (53 Fleet Street) : Laurie & Whittle, 10 August 1797.

1 print : line engraving and etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.9 x 24.8 cm

A new way of curing a quinsey. R. Newton delint. 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."

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VII, London 1942, no. 9331

Wellcome Collection 10971i