A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.

London (111 Fleet Street) : O Hodgson

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

The life of a British sailor saved by Morrisons pill box. ... Lettering continues: "Never go to sea without a large box of Morrisons pills they will save your life said the doctor and sure his honour was right and no mistake when we were wrecked and allaboard perished I swallow'd the pills and jumped into the box and here I am going with a fair wind safe a shore."

Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

Wellcome Collection 11856i