Morison's Pills: the wonderful power of the pills exemplified showing the same person before and after
period print · 1835
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SUMMARY
Wellcome Collection archival record for an illustrated sheet satirising Morison's pills (Wellcome work n2evpf6g; presentation b16749194), catalogued with the title 'Morison's Pills: the wonderful power of the pills exemplified showing the same person before and after' and dated [1835]. A vision inspection of the downloaded image established that it is the illustrated title page of a comic song ('Sung by Mr Fitzwilliam', dedicated mockingly to the Royal College of Physicians by 'Pilula Rhubarbus M.D.', music seller Leoni Lee), not a plain advertising print; the caption was narrowed accordingly. The central vignette shows a stooped invalid on crutches ('before') and a vigorous leaping figure ('after a dose'), illustrating the cure claim it satirises. No real individual is identified. Rights status: Public Domain Mark. Source for the artifact-role media entity morison-pills-before-after.
NOTES
This Wellcome Collection record is the archival source for an 1835 illustrated sheet that satirises the Hygeian cure claim by contrasting a sufferer before and after a dose of Morison’s pills. The vision pass corrected the artifact type: it is the illustrated title page of a comic song, not a straightforward advertisement, and the caption reflects that. No real person is named. The image carries a Public Domain Mark.