A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 30.3 x 22.2 cm

The quack doctors confession on his death bed. ... Lettering continues: "If the common soft or tub soap made into a moderate strong lather, or half an ounce of liquor potassoe in twelve ounces of distill'd water - which is the late Dr. Fordyces prophylatic, or in the absence of these' th best yellow soap, were to be used as preventives of the veneral infection - there could be no longer any excuse nor even bread for one of my profession & callings."

Bears artist's embelm: a miniature figure wearing a top hat and leaning on an umbrella

Wellcome Collection 20990i