A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.

  • Busby, Thomas Lord.
Date:
[1826?]
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665662i
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A sick man sits in an armchair, his left foot resting on a cushion. He grimaces and clenches his left fist in pain. In the foreground, a book inscribed "Scudamore on gout", presumably referring to Charles Scudamore, A treatise on the nature and cure of gout and rheumatism, of which a 3rd edition appeared in 1819. Left on table, a bottle of "Reynold's drops". In the sufferer's left hand is a bottle of "Brandy", and a jar of brandy lies beneath the table, left. Right, a jar of "Thompson and Fear-him's mixture"

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[London] : [T.L. Busby], [1826?]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image and lettering 12.5 x 9.9 cm

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The remedy worse than the disease. Desig'd & eng'd by T.L. Busby

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 8, London 1947, no. ?????

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Wellcome Collection 665662i

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