Indigestion
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Indigestion
Etchings (prints)
Caricatures
This print is part of a set that illustrates the discomforts and pain of illness. Note the use of the little demons to explain the cause of pain and illness.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Thomas McLean
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English
Cholic
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Colic
Etchings (prints)
Caricatures
This print is part of a set that illustrates the discomforts and pain of illness. Note the use of the little demons to explain the cause of pain and illness.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Thomas McLean
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English
The Blue Devils!
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Depression, Mental
Etchings (prints)
Caricatures
This print is part of a set that illustrates the discomforts and pain of illness. Note the use of the little demons to explain the cause of pain and illness.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Thomas McLean
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The Central Board of Health: Cholera Consultation
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Caricatures
Public health
Etchings (prints)
Satires (document genre)
Cholera
In the early nineteenth century cholera epidemics were common. The disease struck its victims rapidly and spread fear amongst the populace. Medical science was ineffective against cholera until John Snow's discovery of its contagion through contaminated water in 1848. Cruikshank comments on the corruption and uselessness of public health officials in this satire.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
S. Knight
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The Gout
Gout
Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Etchings (prints)
Caricatures
Gillray powerfully illustrates the pain and suffering caused by gout, a common ailment of his time.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815
H. Humphrey
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English
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.
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A quote by Milton on the bottom of the print reads, <i>"And fed by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce."</i>
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
S.W. Fores
James Dunthorne (1730-1815), designer
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Dropsy Courting Consumption
Etchings (prints)
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Caricatures
Edema
Tuberculosis
Personification
Dropsy, the stout man, is shown courting consumption, the withered woman. Rowlandson contrasts these 19th century figures to the statue of the classical Hercules.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Thomas Tegg
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The Amputation
Etchings (prints)
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Caricatures
Satires (document genre)
Amputation
Rowlandson's derision of the medical profession is illustrated by a group of doctors attempting an amputation.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
W. Hinton
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English
DigID0002801
In Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam)
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Mental illness
Psychiatric hospitals
Etchings (prints)
Caricatures
Satires (document genre)
Published as the last of a series of eight engravings entitled, A Rake's Progress, this print depicts the story of Tom Rakewell, a wealthy youth who squanders his inheritance because of immorality, carelessness and greed. As he descends into madness, the manacled Rakewell is lead to confinement in an asylum for the destitute and insane.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Published for the Artist
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DigID0002800
A Sore Throat
Pyall, Henry, 1795-1833
Caricatures
Etchings (prints)
Pyall, Henry, 1795-1833
Thomas McLean
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Méthode homœopathique (similia similibus)
Nanteuil, Ch.
Homeopathy
Satires (document genre)
This print satirizes the homeopathic doctrine of curing like with like. The caption translates, <em>"You have indigestion, Gastero intero' evacuante! So an hour from now take a little soup, two chops, an omelet, a roast chicken, and twelve dozen oysters. This light meal will get you a stomach ache far worse than the first one. I won't drop by tomorrow, since I think everything will be over with."</em>
Nanteuil, Ch.
chez Hautecoeur Martinet
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DigID0002249
An Old Maid's Skull Phrenologised
Phrenology
Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832
Lamber, E. F. (artist)
Hunt, F. C. (printmaker)
Satires (document genre)
Prints (visual works)
This English satiric print illustrates some of the absurdities associated with phrenology, as the traits and marked skulls of dogs, birds, and horses are treated on a par with humans. The phrenologist "Doctor S." may be intended to represent Johann Gaspar Spurzheim.
The Inscription on the recto of the image reads: "Old Maid: Doctor A., when you have examined all my bumps, I'll trouble you to explain the faculties, sympathies & propensities of my dear poodle Pompey.
Doctor S.: Miss Strangeways! I can distinctly enumerate thro' the aid of my Patent Skullmeter, that your cranium contains 16,542 1/2 Mental faculties, which I shall by my scale of individuality describe on a future occasion. As for your Poodle Pompey, his prominent bumps are Uxoriousness and Philoprogenitiveness!!!"
Lamber, E. F.
Harrison Isaacs
Hunt, F. C. (printmaker)
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