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My Drops and my Pills __ Will cure all your Ills, 1790-1795

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Description

Black and white etching entitled ‘My Drops and my Pills __ Will cure all your Ills.’, artist and engraver unknown, printed for and published by Bowles & Carver, circa 1790-1795.

In this satirical print a travelling quack has set up a stage, with a flag lettered ‘DR DRENCH’, in the centre of a village to sell his medicines. Standing on the stage, holding medicines in each of his hands and with a chest of medicines beside him, the quack claims to the crowd that: ‘My Drops and my Pills __ Will cure all your Ills.’