Ague and Fever

Ague and Fever

Etchings (prints)

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827

Malaria

Fever

Physician and patient

Originally published by Rowlandson in 1788, this print shows Ague, the snake, wrapped around the patient, while Fever, the furry monster, stands behind him. On the right is a physician writing a prescription.

A quote by Milton on the bottom of the print reads, "And fed by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce."

Etching showing a man afflicted with ague and fever while a physician writes a prescription, by Thomas Rowlandson

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827

S.W. Fores

1792

James Dunthorne (1730-1815), designer

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Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. MMC 139 (10:02)

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1 etching

etching (printing process) on paper; hand coloring on paper; watercolor on paper

English

From the Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. Gift of the Maine Medical Center to the Harvard Medical School, 1992