Quackery Unmasked. Or, Empiricism displayed
Dublin Core
Title
Quackery Unmasked. Or, Empiricism displayed
Subject
Quackery unmask'd, or, empiricism display'd. Dedicated to Doctor Chiron riding master to Achilles, and Æsculapius physician extraordinary to the dead. ...
Description
A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 32.8 cm
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 32.8 cm
Source
Wellcome
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uj59e8xf
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uj59e8xf
Publisher
[London] : Sold in May's Building Covent Garden & 100 more, According to Act of Parliament. 1748.
Contributor
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. III pt. I, London 1877, no. 3019
Relation
Doctor Rock (Richard Rock 1690-1777) was a medicine vendor who frequented the London areas of Tower Hill, St. Paul's Cathedral and Covent Garden. He offered for sale his "anti-venereal, grand, specifick pill". He was represented in several caricatures: William Hogarth referred to him in A harlot's progress pl. V; The march to Finchley; and The four times of the day, morning
Collection
Citation
“Quackery Unmasked. Or, Empiricism displayed,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/187.