Wellcome Collection
A large group of doctors deliberating around a patient; presented by figures bearing the characteristics of the cures they are prescribing, surrounding a goose. Process print after an etching by G. Cruikshank.
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Lettering: The sick goose and the council of health. A victim of quackery reclining exhausted in an arm-chair, with figures emblematical of London patent medicine vendors, each recommending his balm or cordial.
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