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English and French Medical Caricatures, 1760/1835 Box 7, MS-67, Item 9, 21-49

Caricature by definition is a representation in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. Nineteenth-century medicine provided caricaturists with a wealth of material. Artists humorously exaggerated medical conditions and physical characteristics. Bulbous noses, protruding stomachs, and hunched backs were some of the more common features drawn to extraordinary proportions. Bizarre treatments, massive doses of pills, and excessive bloodletting, prescribed by trained physicians and quack doctors alike, were all lampooned. Suffering and discomfort from disease and the patient's reaction to medical treatment were also fodder for the satirist's pen.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. University of Virginia Medical Illustrations collection, 1760/1969, bulk 0

George Nicholas to Wilson Cary Nicholas, cannot take the deposition of [James?] Breckinridge when Nicholas had planned due to the distance between Albemarle and Kentucky and discusses his concern over the seeming indifference of the government to the need for navigation and trade improvements on the frontier., 1794 Box 1, Folder 45

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill and Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1765/1869
  3. Series I: Wilson Cary Nicholas Papers
  4. Subseries A: Correspondence

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