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A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.
Wellcome Collection

A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.

P V. · 1782

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The physical error. Butcher. "Prepare sir- you poison'd my wife--- and by Jupiter, I'll butcher you." Doctor. "Good sir-- hear me- indeed-- upon my honor it was only?-- only only -- a physical error." P.V. delin. ; J. Kent fecit.

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