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."]

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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]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> 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: "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
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shears on the ground
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1 print : etching, with watercolour

The tractors. A new discovered virtue in these invaluable operators most cordially recommeded to the public at large and to Dr. Perkins in in [sic] particular as a likely means of preventing more murder than all the poenal statues. CW esqr. delt.]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sgus9kj6]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xykr72sw]]> ]]> ]]>
Right background, three wooden houses containing shops: left to right a coffee house (presumably "[Ca]fé"), a house advertising a tightrop walker ("Grands danseur du Roy"), and a shop ("Magazin de modes") selling fashionable knicknacks (fans, hats, vases, clocks etc.) Right foreground, some bales and goods traded at the port

Left, the port, with a statue of a woman personifying Hope and Plenty. Behind and centre, a substantial stone building, presumably a customs house

The medicine vendors' banner contains lettering "Par permission du Roy" and a painting of the medicine vendor treating a seated lady, possibly by laying on of hands

1 print : aquatint, with etching and watercolour ; image and borders 37.5 x 53.5 cm
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1 print : etching ; platemark 18 x 22.7 cm

Pitt says: "Why I tell you Doctor Buonaparte, nothing can effect a complete deliverance but my prescription of mint seed, it is the most efficacious remedy in the world". Napoleon replies "I deny that, Doctor, my pills are far more certain in their operation & much quicker in their effect, for instance you have been 14 months in attempting to deliver Italy & I have delivered her in a day, but I refer you to Dr Melas & Dr Kray who have both tried my pills & found them irresistible. therfore Dr if you do not immediatly acknowledge the superiority of my pills, by Mahomet I will make you -". Dundas replies, "Hoot mon, I never knew a country man of mine but would prefer the mint seed to aw the republican pills in the world".
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mrapkw3h]]> Lisa Forman Cody, Birthing the nation: sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons, Oxford 2005, p. 312]]> ]]>
At Graham's feet stands a duck, on a label coming from its beak are the words "Quack. Quack. Quack", and a thistle indicating his Scottish origin. Other objects on the platform are the model of a cannon inscribed 'Coelestial musick' and two jars, one inscribed 'Leyden vial charg'd with load stones aromatic spices, &c. &c. &c'; the other 'Tin foil or antidote'

Above the further side of Graham's table (left) appear the heads and shoulders of two gigantic porters who were part of Graham's establishment. One (left) labelled Gog stands full-face, a placard round his neck: 'Temple of Health & of Hymen', the name of Graham's establishment at Schomberg House, Pall Mall, in allusion to his 'celestial bed' for the cure of sterility. The other footman, 'Magog', is in profile to the right. Attached to the wall above their heads is a stuffed alligator inscribed 'Cured of the dropsey & gout in the stomach'. Beneath this is a shelf, on it are a pestle and mortar, a bust, perhaps of Galen, and a monkey seated in profile to the right holding up a phial in imitation of Graham

Katterfelto's stage is a flimsy rectangular structure supported on thin planks, with cross planks, one decorated with a skull and cross-bones, the other by insects, &c. (a butterfly, centipede, moth, and worm). He crouches over a cylindrical conductor supported on a pillar, similar to, but not identical with, that of his rival; it is inscribed, 'Positively charg'd'; his feet rest on the base of its pillar, a trident on its other end touches a barrel-shaped electrostatic generator which is being turned by a devil with horns and breasts, who says, "Away with it my dear son I'll find fire eternally for you". Katterfelto embraces his electrical conductor with one arm, while his right hand points at Graham; sparks come from his thumb, forefinger, and wig, from a spike on the front of his conductor, and also drop from his chin. He is saying "Dare you was see de vonders of the varld, which make de hair stand on tiptoe, Dare you was see mine tumb and mine findgar, fire from mine findger and feaders on mine tumb - dare you was see de gun fire viddout ball or powder, dare you was see de devil at mine A[rs]e-- O vonders! Vonders! Vonderfull vonders!"

The chain of sparks from Katterfelto's chin drops on to the touch-hole of a toy cannon at his feet so as to fire it in the direction of Graham. His attitude and profile express intense excitement, and his whole person appears charged with electricity; the hair on his forehead stands up, his long pigtail queue flies out behind him as do his coat-tails. Other objects on his platform, besides the electrical appliance which he is grasping, the devil's generator and the cannon, are a Leyden jar, a small rectangular box inscribed 'Arcanum sublimum' and 'Mask'd battery', a toy windmill, a square bottle inscribed 'Tinctr Aurum Vivae', a thunder-house, raised above its base, inscribed 'Thunder house', a bag or small sack inscribed 'Aurora Borealis', and an insect resembling a scorpion (one of the wonders of nature). Beneath the platform is a 'Reservoir for dead insects destroy'd by Dr Katterf[elto]'; insects are indicated carved on the plank"]]> ]]> Exhibited in "Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton" at the National Maritime Museum, London, 1 November 2016 - 1 April 2017
Exhibited in "Medicine Man" at Wellcome Collection, 15 April - 7 October 2019]]>