Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.
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Physical description
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 26.9 x 21.3 cm
Lettering
Christmas day 66: Richard Gray once servant to ye Earle of Bedford. ...
Lettering note
Lettering continues: "shott himselfe through ye body with an iron rammer it went in at the stern on the left side and came four handfull out between the fifth and sixth ribs three inches from his back bone on the right side cured by me in six weeks and is now living neare Wooburn Abby 78. In the yeare 72 I cut from the breast of a widdow White aged 71 a cancer the mouth of it was 21 inches wide it was soe large that in twenty years shee had not lifted her hand to her mouth I perfected the cure in six weeks shee is now living and well in 78 at Serne Abby neare Dorchester. In the yeare 78 Ann Clarke aged 53 of Bere had halfe her lip part of her nose and part of her cheeke eaten away with a cancerous humour and a farmers daughter neare Dorchester in a worse condition for shee had lost the sight of one of her eyes both cured without deformity."
A letter is inscribed on the print in ink and reads: "Dr Sir this is an impression from the back of an old painting on copper & appears to have been part of a large sheet designed to blazon forth the truly marvellous feats of some emperic of the 17th century whom from the locality of the cases I presume to have been the celebrated Doctor Case a Dorsetshire man this impression is taken from the plate cold the work is used twice prints very well & if ... your fathers opinion being taken it should be thought ... to have it for the magazine to work in either whole or in parts with a letter from use it will be at your service the price is a guinea & a half. Yours sincerely J Fisher. If you will advise me what evening next week you may be found at Thavies Inn about 7 ... I propose have the pleasure of waiting ..."]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p798vgr2]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fmaa676c]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/b55uub8v]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/tmfpp3v9]]> The family M.D. The obscene M.D. The obstetric M.D. who makes the diseases of women his particular study. The mesmeric M.D.
Lettering note
The central column is a nine point list of the principles of Morison's system. A similar version to this can be read in Wellcome Library no. 18139i.
Lettering to top left vignette: The family M.D. [Doctor:] "The fact is, my dear madam, I just looked in while Mr. Dormouse was at his office, because there are a number of questions which it is not considered professional to ask a lady in the presence of her husband. In short, my dear Mrs. Dormouse, a husband has no right to the same confidence on the part of his wife as is due to her medical adviser." [Mrs. Dormouse:] "I suppose, doctor, that it is necessary to ask me all these questions; but I don't know what my husband would say to it."
Lettering to top right vignette: The obscene M.D. [Publisher:] "Your last book goes off famously, doctor; the young fellows come in, by dozens, to buy it. Nothing like a highly-seasoned work, to sell: -So I have advertised it in all the papers which find their way into schools and colleges. We can push the thing, because it is written by an M.D.; the police authorities can't touch us, we are beyond all law; because we are privileged by the law to write obscene books, and call it science. This trade of ours enables us to ride about in our carriages, with a lot of servants, all of which is owing to the mystery and confusion in which the whole question is kept by the Royal colleges, as they are called." [Doctor:] Ha! ha! ha! -capital, by Jove. Yes, as you say, Mr. Quarto, we may defy the police and all the anti-vice societies: let these touch an M.D., if they can: our diplomas protect us. It's a jolly lark, though, isn't it? Licensed to write, publish and sell, all the obscenities we can collect. By-the-by, I like the way in which you got the plate coloured in my last; it leaves nothing to the imagination. The only thing which can knock up our trade is, Mr. Morison's system, by which everyone becomes his own physician." [A wastepaper basket is marked: 100 letters for advice (fee 1 guinea each) from deluded patients. [Books scattered on floor:] Manly vigour. With 100 engravings. Silent friend. 50 coloured engravings. Mysteries of matrimony. With engravings. Human happiness. By a member of the Royal College of Physicians. 100 engravings.
Lettering to bottom left vignette: The obstetric M.D., who makes the diseases of women his particular study. Lady. "-Oh, what would my husband say to this, dear doctor." Doctor. "Say! why, what can he say? am I not a professional man? have I not lectured at the hospitals, and written a book on this branch of my profession? You know the old French proverb, 'Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute.' Only let me have one examination, and you will not think any thing more about it." Lady. "-Well, I suppose I must submit, though I must say it looks indelicate; but don't say anything to my husband about it. According to Mr. Morison's system of medicine, I understand that such examinations are strongly condemned, as quite unnecessary, inasmuch as every person should be his own physician." [Doctor:] How pretty you look, this morning. You know, my dear madam, that I have made the diseases of your sex my particular study, I have invented a new instrument, which I call a speculum, by which I can at once see what is the matter with you; therefore, if you will lie on that sofa, I will proceed to examine you."
Lettering to bottom right vignette: The mesmeric M.D. (Sotto voce) "Glorious practice this mesmerism is, because it gives us so much power over the imagination of the patient; it really is very satisfactory. The public have been kept so completely in the dark, as regards the true cause of diseases, that we doctors can impose any thing we please upon them. None of these impositions could take place under Mr. Morison's Hygeian system of medicine, and therefore it wont do for us. What would become of our guinea trade, if we, for one moment, admitted that he was in the right? Hurrah, then for confusion and mystery in medicine." [In his pocket can be seen a 'diploma' reading 'license to do anything medicinally']]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sq23p248]]> Height: Height: 28 centimetres
Excavated/Findspot: Fayum, el- (historic)
Africa: Egypt: Fayum, el- (historic)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1882-1014-2]]> https://museefabre.montpellier3m.fr/recherche/musee%3AMUS_BIEN%3A15521?is_search_page=1&search=agathe&currentPage=1]]> https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-queen-mary-psalter]]>
superimposed on top is a tool from Scultetus treatise]]>