A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family. Mezzotint.

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20807i
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London (St. Pauls Church Yard) : Published as the Act directs by Carington Bowles

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1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 35.4 x 25.2 cm

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The rapacious quack. The rapacious quack quite vext to find, his patient poor, and so forsaken; a thought soon sprung up in his mind, to take away a piece of bacon.

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Wellcome Collection 20807i

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