A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
- Date:
- 1852
- Reference:
- 563183i
- Part of:
- Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice.
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The physician and the patient are seated side by side on a settee, while he takes her pulse. She looks away from him coyly. A piano on the left and an ormolu clock on the right indicate a wealthy domestic setting
Publication/Creation
London : [publisher not identified], 1852.
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour
Lettering
The family M.D.
Lettering contains dialogue: [Physician:] "The fact is, my dear madam, I just looked in while Mr. Dormouse was at his office, because there are a number of questions which it is not considered professional to ask a lady in the presence of her husband. In short, my dear Mrs. Dormouse, a husband has no right to the same confidence on the part of his wife as is due to her medical adviser." [Mrs. Dormouse:] "I suppose, doctor, that it is necessary to ask me all these questions; but I don't know what my husband would say to it."
Reference
Wellcome Collection 563183i
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