shears on the ground
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cc9r3rgk]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> Lettering continues: "If the common soft or tub soap made into a moderate strong lather, or half an ounce of liquor potassoe in twelve ounces of distill'd water - which is the late Dr. Fordyces prophylatic, or in the absence of these' th best yellow soap, were to be used as preventives of the veneral infection - there could be no longer any excuse nor even bread for one of my profession & callings."]]> Heath, William, 1795-1840
]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/yn2zddjt]]> ]]> ]]> Lettering continues: "A remarkable walking bookseller quack doctor &c. &c. hawking old books as Mosess do old cloaths. Stop gentle reader & behold a beau in boots, searching for gold, a walking bookseller, an epicure, a teacher, docter & a connoisseur. Gratis to the purchases of the Wonderful Magazine"]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xc77784y]]> Wonderful Magazine]]>
Lettering continues: ["The jury, in giving their verdict, strongly censured the gross ignorance of the accused, and regretted that there was no law to prevent them from practising surgery."]

\1 print : wood engraving ; border 20.8 x 18 cm
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The quack hawks his wares. The description states woe over ability of quacks to perform surgery and yet the quack does not show any affiliation to operations/tool/anatomy]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/hrudq9cd]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/z592pucj]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/tztchawh]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the ground reads "Lies told faster than a horse can gallop. Nann Manning, Lynn Regis"
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y84ckk5j]]> ]]> ]]> The ludicrous operator, or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer. Why squeeze your hat, and seize my cap as if you dreaded some mishap? Keep not your spirits on the rack, I'm a licentiate not a quack. Designed by J. Harris & improv'd by drawings after the life by J. Wilson. J. Wilson fecit.
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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 24.5 cm

Melancholicus. Anxius et niger est, timet omnia tristia, dormit, / Et violentus atro manat ab ore furor, / Insomnesque agitat violento examine curas: / Mole sua bilis quem nimis atra premit. M. de Vos inventor. Raphael Sadler scalps. Antuerpiæ.
]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/k8x8cn4z]]> ]]> Guy Tal, 'Skepticism and morality in Jacques de Gheyn II's Preparation for the witches' sabbath', Simiolus, 2022, 44: 5-27, p. 10 ("A figure with fingers intertwined became a standard signifier of melancholy")]]> ]]> 1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.6 x 24.9 cm
Lettering continues: "Well norse how was mine patient by dish time?" "Much better sir, the medicines had great effect." "Ah! dat is goot and dit you gif de poppies- and de bol ammoniac as I told you?" "Oh! yes sir the puppies he has eat six this morning- and I have boil'd four more he is taking now- as for the old almanack I could not get one in all the parish; but I procured a very old copy of Robin Hood, & boil'd that down in milk which has answer'd the purpose very well."


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