Heads: Physicorum by Thomas Rowlandson (1800)

Hand-coloured caricature of a stern elderly man in a grey wig, wearing a garland of medicine bottles, pills and a syringe.

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This hand-coloured print by Thomas Rowlandson, dated 1800, shows a caricatured elderly man in a grey powdered wig with a stern expression. Around his head hangs a garland of medicine bottles, pill boxes, a syringe and bags, with ribbon labels reading terms such as purging, emollient, sleeping, restorative and aperient. The title Physicorum appears beneath the figure.

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1800

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Wikimedia Commons

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