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Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians

In the background is a crowd of revelling quacks, some of them proclaiming they can cure Britannia's ills, perhaps referring to the Opposition

1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm

State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…

Tags: breast, britannia, medicine, personification, quzcks

Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin

1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 16.3 x 11.7 cm
The infallible mountebank or quack doctor. ...

Tags: clown, performance, quackery, stage, surgery, tools

Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd

1 print : etching and aquatint, with watercolour

Lettering continues: "High oe'r the gaping crowd, on market day. While Andrew drolls the blockheads pence away, see the bold rogue pretending to restore, loves long lost fountain, that must flow no…

Tags: caricature, female figure, imp, mountebank, performance, quack

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

The Opposition politicians are represented as quacks beguiling the people with advocacy of reform and clamour against corruption in high places. Samuel Whitbread stands on a platform holding a placard inscribed "Infallible panacea-Reform"; in his…

Tags: caricautre, death, mountebank, quack, shears, surgery

Doctor Pean

1 photomechanical print : image and text 26 x 21 cm., on sheet 39 x 29 cm.

Tags: caricature, pean, physician

Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture.

1 print : half-tone, printed in colour ; image 14.8 x 12.3 cm.

La torture est-elle bonne pour les goutteux?... Page 5. de Losques. Éditée par la "Pipérazine Midy"

Tags: Fabry, gout, Hildanus, Hilden, operation, torture

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Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians

Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin

Doctor Botherum, an itinerant medicine vendor (perhaps based on Doctor Bossy) selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants to a raucous crowd

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

Doctor Pean

Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture.

A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient

Sallot dit Casque de Fer

Philippe Ricord

An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant