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Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.

Dr Sangrado taking the pulse of a sick clergyman. Engraving by Thurston, 1802, after C. Warren after A. Le Sage.

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Dr Sangrado taking the pulse of a sick clergyman. Engraving by Thurston, 1802, after C. Warren after A. Le Sage.

Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.