An apothecary attempts to give an Englishman an enema but is restrained by an American; medical aid is prevented by a Frenchman and Spaniard; representing the problems caused for the English by the American war for independence. Line engraving, 1778.

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1778
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15969i
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An earlier version of this print from 1680 is concerned with the war between the English and the Dutch. A Dutchman holds a pot ready for the English patient to vomit in. In this version, however, no one holds a pot and "the city view through a window at the right [has been substituted] for the view of a ship. In one state the clyster held by the apothecary is labelled 'Dr. B. Franklin' and the city is labelled 'Philadelphie'" (Helfand, op. cit. note 1).

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1778

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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 20.2 x 28.1 cm

Lettering

L'anglais a toute extremité ... Lettering continues: 1. L'anglais couché sur un lit demendant un remede a ses meaux. 2. Un apoticaire la seringue a la main veux le secourir mais un Amériquain 3, l'en empèche en le retirant 4. un troupeau de medecins et apoticaire vienent en foule pour entrer mais un fran̨cais 5. l'epée a la main et un espagnol 6. leur en déffendre l'entre 7. un hollandais profitent du desordre emporte les balots par la fenêtre.

References note

W. Helfand, 'Medicine and pharmacy in French political prints', Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 4th ser; vol. 42, no. 1, July 1974

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Wellcome Collection 15969i

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