Doctors ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes pre- 1850 leaflets for quacks such as Joseph Law, Signior Albini and Dr. Bossy (of Bunhill Row, London, 1790), a 1751 account of a doctor suing a farmer at York Assizes for unpaid fees (medicines etc. are itemised), advertising cures for cataracts, stone in the bladder and kidneys, hernias, hare lips, green sickness, ulcers, sexually transmitted diseases (clap), distemper, consumption, smallpox, ague, fever, bloody fluxes, asthma, the French disease, gout, dropsy, rheumatism, ringworm, warts, king's evil, tumours, blindness, deafness and a satirical poem about a "Doctor Puff", 'The quack doctor's speech to the crulous mob (Lord Rochester), 'The quack doctor's speech' (Waltho van Clauterbank : Munday & Dean, Threadneedle Street), 'A true and wonderful account of a cure of the Kings-Evil, by Mrs. Fanshaw, sister to his grace, the Duke of Monmouth' (Ben Harris, Cornhill, 1681), 'Welthe, helthe, and happinesse, a ryghte merrie conceitte' (poem, backed with 'The education of the soldier', illustrated by George Cruickshank). 'Your friend, the doctor' (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company). Items relating to individual doctors include: Dr. Ablett (Whitehaven, 1899), F. & C. Atkins (surgeons, Plumstead Common Road, 1880s), Edward A. Braithwaite (Egremont, 1921), Samuel Braithwaite (Egremont, 1886), George Calderwood (Egremont, 1898), F.W. Cheese (Cliftonville, 1932), R. Christie Brown (Harley Street, London, 1946), John Clark (Cleator Moor, 1904), Clarence Cottrell (1911), J.N. Cumings (Pathological Laboratory, National Hospital, Queen Square, London, 1945), Jacques Daran (1760), R.E. Davie (85 Wembley Park Drive, London, 1946), Joseph H. Dickson (Whitehaven, 1891), J.T. Donald (Paisley, 1892), Prof. and Mrs. Fleming (Danvers St., London), M. Gosset, Hope Grant, W.B. Griffith (Ravenglass, 1892), William Hamilton (1717), John Hayman (1784), Charles Heaton (1880), John Hepburn (surgeon, Stamford, Lincs. 18th cent.?), Dr. Jackson (Whitehaven, 1894), Dr. J'Anson (Whitehaven, 1902), Mr. Kingston and Mr. Doeg (Bridlington, May 1814).