Attended by their apothecaries stored with the proper medicines. - Page 228 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Attended by their apothecaries stored with the proper medicines. - Page 228
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; Lagado; Laputa; England
Description: During his time on Balnibarbi Gulliver visited the Grand Academy of Lagado and the scholars who worked there. A proposal made by a doctor was to resolve political issues through treating politicians with various medicines. Through treating problems of the humours (a medical theory from the Ancient Greeks) then political disagreements could be easily resolved. In this image we see politicians sitting in parliament, with doctors standing nearby holding large bottles of medicines and needles.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22075
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22075_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Scholars in Literature; Politics in Literature; Medicine; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures