[a doctor practicing prognosis] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a doctor practicing prognosis]
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: Gulliver explains the various medicines used in England to treat disease. In this image we see a doctor in his office, with his back to the viewer. This image appears when Gulliver explains the practice of prognosis to the Houyhnhnms. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21223
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21223_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Prognosis; medicine; Medical offices; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures; satire