[a doctor holds a needle] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [a doctor holds a needle]
Subject: needles; medicine; Medical offices; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Gulliver explains the various medicines used in England to treat disease. In this image we see a doctor holding a large needle. The image represents a doctor giving a patient an enema. We also see a chamber pot on the floor next to the doctor. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Verdeil (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21221
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21221_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: needles; medicine; Medical offices; satire; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures