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a miniature illustration in a fifteenth-century manuscript of Guy de Chauliac's La Grande chirurgie, in Montpellier, Bibliothèque Universitaire, Ms. fr. 184.
1 painting : gouache, with watercolour, pencil, gold highlights ; image 21.4 x 26.2 cm
A medicinal dictionary
Table XLII-XLIII
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.
A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares
1 print : etching ; platemark 31.8 x 23.3 cm
Lettering continues: "Allen staenden, leuten, die es am wenigsten glauben, Leuten, die von der Betrügerey leben, diesen ist die Ehr lichkeit, oder welches einerley ist, der Schein der Ehr lichkeit am…
Lettering continues: "Allen staenden, leuten, die es am wenigsten glauben, Leuten, die von der Betrügerey leben, diesen ist die Ehr lichkeit, oder welches einerley ist, der Schein der Ehr lichkeit am…
A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees
Description
A story described in an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Epigrammes, 1723, lib. I, epigram XI (from which the lettering on the present print was copied)
1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 31.8 x 25.3 cm
L'operateur…
A High German Doctor, or a Cure for a Complaint in the Bowels
The doctor is accompanied by a black assistant who wears a crown and carries a basket of medicines, with a handbill saying "All sorts of incurable disorder cured"
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.6 x 24.9 cm
Lettering continues:…
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 19.6 x 24.9 cm
Lettering continues:…
A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company
Contents
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…
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…
A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune
From the cornucopia next to Bacchus tumbles a mixture of money, games (including playing cards, dice and a chessboard), medicine bottles, cups and ladles. To the right, Hygieia, daughter of Asklepios, holds the latter's attributes: a cock, and a…
A doctor in purgator!!
1 print : 54 x 44 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching
note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'
A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front
1 drawing : pencil, with gouache and wash