Lettering
Lieu.t Gover.r Gall-stone, inspired by Alecto; or The birth of Minerva ...
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7721
William Schupbach, 'Il Luogotenente Governatore del Calcolo Biliare', Kos, 1984, 1(6), p. 12
Lettering note
Lettering continues: "From his head she sprung, a goddess arm'd", Milton. To the opinions of the right hon.ble Edward, Lord Thurlow, the Earls Camden, Bute, Bathurst, and Coventry, George Touchet -Baron- Audley, and Philip Thicknesse Jun.r esq.r to the literati, the Royal Society, the military, medical and obstetric bodies, this attempt to elucidate the properties of honor and courage, intelligence and philanthropy, is most respectfully submitted, by their humble servant, J.s Gillray ... [Lettering continues at great length. The full text can be found in the British Museum catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 4, number 7721]

On the table, page is open to an image of a physician feeling a woman's breast with the caption "Man Midwifery Analyzed. or a new way to write Bawdy for the instruction of Modest Women with an Emblematic Frontispiece"]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wftc6zre]]> 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]]>
Lettering
Elle. -Le médecin est un peu comme un confesseur? Le docteur. -...Alors vous lui faites voir tout ca? ; Abel Faivre]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c2ab3tvk]]>
Image shows Pean's fondly stroking his hemostatic clamps in front of an opening to a hospital with a coivered wagon and gated entrance, implying some nefariousness taking place. Both Pean's head and the clamps are larger than life]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/s6pbwt8r]]>
1 drawing : pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil ; sheet 29.5 by 43.2 cm

Medicine vessels lower right labelled "unguent balsa" and "ung. me"]]> The artist Ramberg was born in Hanover, the son of the war secretary of the Electorate of Hanover who encouraged his son in his vocation as an artist. In 1781 he sent him to England where he was introduced to King George III for whom he made a number of humorous sketches and caricatures. He was admitted to the R.A. schools by Benjamin West and he won a silver medal for life drawing in 1784. He exhibited twelve pictures at the Royal Academy (then at Somerset House) between 1782 and 1788, including his best known work 'Portraits of their Majesties and the Royal Family viewing the Exhibition of the Royal Academy' (now in the British Museum) In 1788, he visited the Netherlands and then Italy, returning to Hanover in 1792 where he was appointed court painter and spent the rest of his life]]> Humorous pictures. Ink drawings.
Material
india ink over pencil ;
Measurements
sheet 25.7 x 17 cm
Description
1 drawing :
The artist shows sutures where the breasts have been removed. Three Bavarian passers-by are open-mouthed with astonishment. The drawing and its pair apparently refer to the war memorial in the Marktplatz at Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, including a sculpture of Saint Catherine of Alexandria sculpted by Friedrich Lommel in 1923. That figure of Saint Catherine is similar to the present figure of Germania, though there are also many differences. The Lex Heinze (referred to in the lettering for the companion drawing) was a German law passed in 1900 forbidding unseemly or obscene representations in public places. The lettering implies that a Dr Casselmann spoke in favour of the law in the Bavarian parliament (Bayerischer Landtag): Dr. jur. Leopold Casselmann (1858-1930, from 1907 Ritter von Casselmann), mayor of Bayreuth 1900-1918, was minister of justice for Bavaria 1918-1919
Nach der Operation! Nach Dr Casselmann im bayerischen Landtag!]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gwyqzbsq]]> ]]>