A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.

  • Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
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[1807?]
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11208i
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A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The sailor describes his medical history in nautical terms. He refers to a skeleton suspended in a cupboard as the doctor's "messmate"

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[London] (111 Cheapside) : T. Tegg, [1807?]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour

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The sailor and the quack doctor!! ... Woodward del. ; Cruikshank s.p The sailor says: "You must know doctor I have got a bit of a confusion [sic] on my larboard cheek from a chance shot, and as I dont think it of consequence enough for our ships surgeon, I bore down to you, after overhawling a long list of your cures - but I suppose from the messmate in the cabin there; you dont always make a return of the killed and wounded." The medical practitioner replies: "Sir, my rule of practice is this, there is pen, ink, and paper, - sign a certificate of your cure, and I'll take you in hand immediatly on paying down two guineas!"

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 10896

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Wellcome Collection 11208i

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