A doctor taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor surrounded by the consequences of his life style. Mezzotint, ca. 1770.

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[1770?]
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11198i
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London (69 St. Pauls Church Yard) : Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, [1770?]

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1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 35.2 x 25 cm

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The miseries of a single life. The batchelor monopolizes ills. Quacks, bailiffs, bastards, bolusses and pills. But more than those, heres gout to make him fret. And forc'd to father what he could not get. Bears number lower left : 310

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A coloured version of this print is described in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IV, London 1883, no. 4540 (dated c. 1770)

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Wellcome Collection 11198i

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