Exodus, or Simplified procedure of collecting the Doctor's fee was drawn by the roistering British cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), whose caricatures of the classic struggle between doctors & patients were shown last week at the History of Medicine Association in Atlantic City. Other rowdy Rowlandsons :
Way of Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner to Day! !"
Chamber War, a scene of furious...
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