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Dr. Bossy, the quack of Dr. Bossy with assistants, selling medicines in London
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James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1833Reference: 10764i- Pictures
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Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman, demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving by G. Walker, 1792, after M. Laroon.
Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.Date: 10 July 1793Reference: 20589i- Pictures
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Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Date: 1 April 1792Reference: 20579i- Pictures
Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with assistants at Covent Garden, London. Etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Date: 1 April 1792Reference: 20577i- Pictures
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A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.
NoParty, Nathaniel, active 1812.Date: 1 Feb[r]u[a]ry 1812Reference: 38480i- Pictures
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A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint, 1792, after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Date: Published as the Act directs, 2 Jan 1792Reference: 16512i- Books
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Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair].
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: [1790?]- Pictures
A stout ungainly man undergoing group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after S. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11829i- Pictures
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A quack doctor assisting a voluptuous female patient with group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after J. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11828i- Books
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Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded [sic] rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's Fever Powder, Tickell's Aetherial Spirit, & Godbold's Balsam, Taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the Seal of the proper Officers; And also the ingredients and compostion of Many of the most celebrated Quack Nostrums, As analized by several of the best Chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Physician to the Commander in Chief of the Leeward Islands, and to the Colonial Troops; and one of the Judges of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the Island of Antigua. With A Dedication to Philip Thicknesse, Censor-General of Great-Britain, Professor of Empiricism, and Nostrum, Rape, and Murder-Monger to the St. James's Chronicle. To which is added, a dramatic dialogue. Published for the Benefit of the Tin-Miners in Cornwall. By Benjamin Goosequill, and Peter Paragraph.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: [1790?]- Pictures
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Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Process print, 19--, after G. Cruikshank, 183-.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 21035i- Pictures
Philip Thicknesse writing at a table, surrounded by demonic apparitions representing aspects of his life. Aquatint by J. Gillray after himself, 1790.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1790Reference: 18122i- Pictures
A devious itinerant medicine vendor and assistant perform their sales pitch to a suspicious audience, against the backdrop of the Tower of London. Etching, 1792.
Date: Publish'd as the Act directs 25 September 1782Reference: 20602i- Pictures
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A quack and a clown on stage presenting their wares to a hostile audience; referring to various politicians reactions to the replacement of the fixed duty on corn. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1841.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 15 May 1841Reference: 13436iPart of: HB Sketches