Dickens and medicine : an exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.

  • Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine
Date:
1970
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Credit: Dickens and medicine : an exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Captain Jekyll's patent vapour bath. The cloak is made of oil'd silk, which does not expose the person: as it is here represented to shew the aparatus of the bath. Engraving from Important Facts... [on] Captain Jekyll's patent portable vapour bath, etc. London: Saunders & Otley, 1828. 27 x 23 cm. [47 Captain Jekyll recommended his portable invention for a wide variety of disorders. Portrait of Samuel Hahnemann. Mezzotint by R. Woodman after a painting by G. E. Hering. Published Manchester: Hering and Remington, n.d. 44 x 31 cm. [48 Hahnemann [ 1755-1843] was a physician and the founder of homoeopathy. This novel system of medicine, based on the principle of like curing like, was extremely popular in Victorian England and represented an alternative approach to the as yet unproved conventional thera- peutics. Dr Fred. Quin, a leading English homoeopathist, was a friend of Dickens. L'homoeopathie, ou les malices de la medecine. Lithograph by Magnier. Cover of song-sheet, published Paris: N. Pate, n.d. 26 x 34 cm. [49 Banting. Coloured lithograph by R.J. Hamerton. Printed by Metzler & Co., London, c, 1864. 34 x 24 cm. [50 Cover of song-sheet. Caricature of the public passion for slimming, brought on by the publi- cation of William Banting's book Letter on Corpulence, in 1864. The fox and the goose. Caricatures, etched and published by George Cruikshank, 1833. 19 x 27 cm. [51 Underneath the scenes of the London and British Colleges of Health appear several verses poking fun at their founder, James Morrison, an acute business-man who made a fortune from patent-medicines. View of the Fancy Fair, held in May 1830 at the mansion and grounds of John Penn, Spring Gardens, St. James's Park, and for the benefit of Charing Cross Hospital. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf. London, published by the artist, 1832. 32x 43 cm. [52 The Hospital was founded in 1821. George Scharf senior [1788-1860], who was born in Munich, came to London in 1816 and introduced lithography to this country. Guy's Hospital. Coloured engraving by J. Rogers. Designed by N. Whittock, c. 1830. 21 x 27 cm. [53 St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Coloured engraving, c. 1815. 18 x 15 cm. [54