English Footnotes

1. Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989, p. 132.
2. For a discussion of Briton's anxiety and obsession with health, see Chapters 1 & 2 in Bruce Haley, The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978, pp. 3-45.
3. See the title page in William Buchan, Domestic Medicine, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985.
4. See www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/exhibitions/enlightenment/enlightenment.html
5. William Buchan, Domestic Medicine, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985, p. 352.
6. William Buchan, Domestic Medicine, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985, p. 355.
7. William Buchan, Domestic Medicine, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985, p. 353.
8. Lois N. Manger, History of Medicine, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1992, p. 205.
9. Fiona Haslam, From Hogarth to Rowandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996, p. 143.
10. Bruce Haley, The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978, pp. 4-5.
11. Bruce Haley, The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978, p. 5.
12. Sally Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian England, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996, p. 199.
13. Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989, p. 134.
14. Lois N. Manger, A History of Medicine, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1992, p. 217.
15. See Chapter 1, “Interpreting Quackery,” in Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989, pp. 1-20.
16. The Times, Issue 5224, col D, May 21, 1801, p. 3.
17. Draper Hill, Mr. Gillray The Caricaturist, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1965, p. 140.
18. For a discussion on Elisha and Benjamin Perkins see Jacques M. Quen, “Elisha Perkins, Physician, Nostrum-Vendor, or Charlatan?” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 37, 1963, pp. 159-166.
19. James Morison, “To The Editor of the The Times,” The Times, Issue 16927, col A, January 1, 1839, p. 8.
20. To see additional caricatures about Morison's pills see William H Helfand, Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera and Books, New York: The Grolier Club, 2002, pp. 113-127.
21. “Editorial,” Lancet, Vol 2, April 2, 1836, p. 57.
22. Tarlton Law Library - Law in Popular Culture Collection, The Complete Newgate Calender, Vol. V, www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/newgate5/salmon.htm.
23. For further discussion of satires about the Queen Caroline affair see Marcus Wood, Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 149-154 and 253-258.
24. The full song can be found at www.firstulster.org/page/songs.
25. William Buchan, Domestic Medicine, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985, pp. 484-493.
26. William Buchan, Domestic Medicine, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985, p. 218.
27. Sally Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian England, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996, p. 122.
28. Sally Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian England, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996, p. 125.
29. John Burnett, Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England from 1815 to the Present Day, London: Scolar Press, 1966, p. 81.
30. John Burnett, Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England from 1815 to the Present Day, London: Scolar Press, 1966, p. 79.
31. “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,” The Times, Issue 12367, col A, June 17, 1824, p. 3.
32. See introduction by Charles Magel, in Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes, London: The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd, 1997, pp. vi-xx.

     

Bibliography: English Caricatures

• “A Card - The Possessors of Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors,” The Times, Issue 5114, col D, May 21, 1801, p. 3.
• Armstrong, David and Elizabeth Metzger Armstrong. The Great American Medicine Show: Being an Illustrated History of Hucksters, Healers, and Health Evangelists, and Heroes from Plymouth Rock to the Present. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1991.
• Black, J. Anderson & Madge Garland. A History of Fashion. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1980.
• Buchan, William. Domestic Medicine. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. This book can be viewed on-line at http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com.
• Burnett, John. Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England from 1815 to the Present Day. London: Scolar Press, 1966.
• Bynam, W. F. and Roy Porter. Medical Fringe & Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850. Kent: Mackays, 1987.
• “Copy of a letter from James Morison, Esq., The Hygeist,” The Times, Issue 16244, col F, Oct. 26, 1836, p. 7;
• “Deaths by Acts of Violence,” Lancet, Vol. 1, September 30, 1837 - March 24, 1838, p. 667.
• “Dinner to Mr. Alderman Harmer and Mr. Bell,” Lancet, Vol. 2, March 25, 1837 - September 23, 1837. p. 130.
• Feaver, William. Masters of Caricature: from Hogarth and Gillray to Scarfe and Levine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
• Gompertz, Lewis. Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes. London: The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd., 1997.
• Haley, Bruce. The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Haslam, Fiona. From Hogarth to Rowandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996.
• Helfand, William H. Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera and Books. New York: The Grolier Club, 2002.
• Hill, Draper. Mr. Gillray The Caricaturist. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1965.
• Jones, Harold Wellington. “Caricatures: Especially Medical Caricatures,” Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Vol.31, No.2, April 1943, pp. 108-118. (This can be found on-line at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov)
• Lucie-Smith, Edward. The Art of Caricature. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1981.
• Manger, Lois N. A History of Medicine. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1992.
• Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
• Morison, James. “To the Editor of the Times,” The Times, Issue 16927, col A, January 1, 1839, p. 8.
• Porter, Roy. Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550-1860. Hampshire: MacMillan Publishers, Ltd., 1987.
• Porter, Roy. Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989.
• Quen, Jacques M. “Elisha Perkins, Physician, Nostrum-Vendor, or Charlatan?” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 37, 1963. pp. 159-166.
• “The Poison Vender Morison Versus the Dispatch,” Lancet, Vol. 1, September 24, 1836 - March 18, 1837, pp. 764-765.
• Wood, Marcus. Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Web-sites

• Wikipedia: Caroline of Brunswick, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_of_Brunswick
• Wikipedia: George IV of the United Kingdom, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom
• Alex Peck Antique Scientifica Sale Catalogue, antiquescientifica.com/catalog16.htm
• University of Viginia Libraries: Collections search, infotrac.galegroup.com/menu
• The Hartford Medical Society Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry: Galvanic Tractors, library.uchc.edu/hms/tractors.html
• Brabazon and the Ellis, Heaton and Walker families: The Prince Regent's Privy Purse, www.brabazon.org.uk/brab11.htm
• Victorian Era Health & Medicine: Common Diseases of the 19th Century, www.geocities.com/victorianlace16/diseases.html
• Victorian Era Health & Medicine: Early Methods of Treatment, www.geocities.com/victorianlace16/treatments.html
• Victorian Medicine, www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine/html
• Nineteenth Century Medicine in the Literal Sense, www.gober.net/victorian/reports/medicine.html
• University of Texas at Austin, Tarlton Law Library (“Convicted of manslaughter, in administering Morison‘s Pills”), tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/newgate5/salmon.htm
• National Portrait Gallery, www.npg.org.uk
• The Royal Pavilion, www.royalpavilion.org.uk/
• Index of /science/health, www.victorianweb.org/science/health
• Wikipedia: Albert Abrams, www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Abrams

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