A patient refusing the prescriptions of opposing doctors; referring to Russell's refusal to take any further part in electoral reform. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1837.

  • Doyle, John, 1797-1868.
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12 December 1837
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12248i
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A patient refusing the prescriptions of opposing doctors; referring to Russell's refusal to take any further part in electoral reform. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1837. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Wakley offering a box labelled 'abolition of tithes' says: "Allow me strongly to recommend you to take three of these pills immediately"; Russell replies: "I tell you flatly I'll have none of your pills, I can't swallow them at present" and Peel comments: "Don't press him against his inclination - he don't know what is good for him". On the other side O'Connell pours from a flask of 'universal suffrage, vote by ballot, annual Parliament' exclaiming: "It is mighty uncivil of these fellows to press the gentleman so, when they see he is going to have my black draught"; beside him under a table of flasks is a box of 'repeal pills'

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[London] (26 Haymarket) : T. McLean, 12 December 1837 ([London] : A. Ducôte's Lithogy.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; border 28 x 35.2 cm.

Lettering

The rival quacks, or Black draught versus Universal pills. HB

References note

Too late for the British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

Reference

Wellcome Collection 12248i

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