A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.

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11646i
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The room is littered with treatments: "Boiling shower bath", "Red hot closet", "Red hot iron poultices twice a minute", "Red hot lead draughts 50 times a day", "Mustard", "Flannel", "Brandy", "Brandy hot", Chamois leather", "Vitriol", "Cayene"

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1 print : soft-ground etching, with watercolour ; platemark 18.7 x 22.4 cm

Lettering

The man that could'nt get warm. ... Lettering continues: "Then close to a blazing fire he got & took to drinking brandy hot, and sent for doctors, such a lot, the man that could'nt get warm. Shivery shakery oh! Oh! Oh! & c."

References note

Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

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Wellcome Collection 11646i

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