Medical Dispatch or Doctor Doubledose Killing Two Birds with One Stone
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Title
Medical Dispatch or Doctor Doubledose Killing Two Birds with One Stone
Subject
Social satire, Medicine in art
Description
While the physician in A Going! A Going! is more concerned with making money than healing patients, Doctor Doubledose allows the pleasures of the flesh to override his responsibilities to the sick. In this print the lustful physician shows no concern that the elderly woman is so comatose that her pulse, which he pretends to take, may have altogether stopped. The medications on the table include a jar of opium which he has prescribed in too large a dose. Perhaps this was his plan all along in order to seduce the young daughter, whose cheeks are flushed by his advances. Rowlandson calls attention to doctor’s phallic cane, inscribed “Medical Staff,” to coarsely allude to the true motivation for Doctor Doubledose’s visit.
Creator
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Source
[no text]
Publisher
Thomas Tegg, London
Date
1810
Contributor
Debra Cashion, in collaboration with Elisabeth Barrett, '15
Rights
Relation
Format
Hand-colored etching; original dimensions, 338 x 245 mm
Language
[no text]
Type
Still image
Identifier
[no text]
Coverage
[no text]
Files
Citation
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), “Medical Dispatch or Doctor Doubledose Killing Two Birds with One Stone,” The Anatomist: Early Modern Medical Satire, accessed March 28, 2024, https://anatomist.omeka.net/items/show/8.