Seven medical conditions humourously illustrated. Reproduction of an etching.

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11186i
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Each of the seven scenes bear legends: "A burning inflamation!" "A galloping consumption!" "The hooping cough!" "A mortification!" "Hypochondriacal!" "The dropsy!" "The scarlet fever!"

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1 print : lithographic reproduction of an etching

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Medical gazette. ...

References note

Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive chic: a history of beauty, fashion, and disease, [London?] 2017, p. 24, fig. 2.6 ("A galloping consumption!")

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Wellcome Collection 11186i

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The original of this reproduction is record number 11188 in this catalogue

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