Title |
Doctor. |
Publisher |
[New York] : N.Y. Union Valentine Co., No. 134 William St., N.Y. |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
"Dr. Bleedems Office" appears on a sign behind the doctor, who stands holding a three-pronged knife in one hand and a saw
in the other. The valentine mocks doctors who use unnecessary procedures to make money.
|
Notes |
Text: With probe, and saw, and lancet, / With plasters, purges and pukes, / You cut your way to favor / With duchesses and
dukes; / But, you may saw into a fortune, / And probe into a mine, / Before I'd see in your ugly phiz / Anything worth this
Valentine.
|
Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Physicians -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Surgeons -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Medical personnel -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.123.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 3.23 |