A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.

  • Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.
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8 May 1831
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A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (54 Leicester Sqre.) : J. Kendrick, 8 May 1831 ([London] Grays Inn Road : S. L...)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

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Singular effects of the universal pills on a green grocer! A fact! ... CJ Grant invent & del. Lettering continues: "Who green'un like was order'd to live for the space of one month upon vegetable diet & to take during that time 132 boxes of vegetable pills for the cure of a gangreen, & being caught in a shower of rain in the green fields in the evening of the 1st of April last, was put to bed midst shooting pains & in the morning presented the above phenomenon of a moving kitchen garden!!! Query - is he not one of the productive classes."

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Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Richard Pound, C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered, London: University College, 1998, no. 47, pp. 114-115

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Wellcome Collection 11852i

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