1 print : chromolithograph, printed in colours ; image 38.4 x 31.4 cm
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1 print : etching ; platemark 26.2 x 17.8 cm

There are three lines of footnotes below the lettering
Lettering continues: "Beareth sable, an urinal proper, between 12 quack-heads of the second & 12 cane heads Or, consultant. On a chief nebulæae, Ermine, one compleat doctor issuant, checkie sustaining in his right hand a baton of the second. On his dexter & sinister sides two demi-doctors, issuant of the second, & two cane-heads issuant of the third; the first having one eye conchant, towards the dexter side of the escocheon; the second faced per pale proper & Gules, guardent. With this motto. Et plurima mortis imago."]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ejvctpf4]]> ]]>
Caricature: A group of surgeons sit around a table discussing the manner of the death of a particular person; one holds up a bag of gold and responds, "This convinces me...", while another states, "Gold is good evidence...."
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engraving]]> ttp://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101393826]]> 1 process print ; image 20.2 x 27.3 cm]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/rjvcw67x]]> 1 drawing : pencil, with gouache and wash]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/a6y7eg34]]> Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching

note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons']]> Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809., artist
Contributor(s):
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798
Hassell, J. (John), 1767-1825, artist
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Of the four moneybags falling from the sack, two each display the numerals 275 and 600 respectively. There is also a medicine bottle labelled 'KG'. At the extreme left of the picture, under a large bust is the name 'Justiniaan' and at the extreme right above a shop, is the legend 'Apothek...'


1 print : etching, with watercolour ; border 9.1 x 15 cm
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fuvx96d6]]> 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]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jsdkvtc2]]> ]]> 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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