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On a machine is a book open at the title page inscribed: "Explication de deux machines superbes l'un pour remettre l'epaules l'autre pour servir de tire bouchon inventes par Monsr de La Pillule. Vues et aprouveès par l'Academie Royal des Sciences a Paris"

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Poster displays various images, including a scorpion (also misconstrued as a crab)
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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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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 24.5 cm

Melancholicus. Anxius et niger est, timet omnia tristia, dormit, / Et violentus atro manat ab ore furor, / Insomnesque agitat violento examine curas: / Mole sua bilis quem nimis atra premit. M. de Vos inventor. Raphael Sadler scalps. Antuerpiæ.
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]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c8wyr4y7]]> ]]> ]]> Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the ground reads "Lies told faster than a horse can gallop. Nann Manning, Lynn Regis"
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