Quackery - Medical Minstrels Performing for the Benefit of Their Former Patients

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Quackery - Medical Minstrels Performing for the Benefit of Their Former Patients - No Other Dead-Heads Admitted

1879

Joseph Keppler (American (born Austria), 1838–1894)

In a biting satire on the excessive promotion and irresponsible formulation of many proprietary medicines, Keppler leaves no group untouched, attacking regular physicians-the allopaths-and many practitioners of alternative systems: homeopaths, eclectics, vegetarians, phlebotomists, hydropaths, and even spirit mediums and Turkish bathers. The cartoonist takes pains to single out arsenic, calomel, laudanum, quinine, and morphine, placing them in the same league as quack medicines.

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Object Details

Title:

Quackery - Medical Minstrels Performing for the Benefit of Their Former Patients - No Other Dead-Heads Admitted
Puck, vol. 6. no. 141, November 19, 1879

Date:

1879

Artist:

Joseph Keppler (American (born Austria), 1838–1894)

Medium:

Color lithograph

Dimensions:

Image (with black border): 11 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (29.8 x 47 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 x 20 9/16 inches (34.9 x 52.2 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The William H. Helfand Collection, 2004

Accession Number:

2004-99-37

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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