Satirical Medical Note Cards for Sale in the Medical Library

The Medical Library has created a set of note cards picturing medical scenes from the Clements C. Fry Collection's significant holdings of British satirical prints of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.  The Fry Collection, a renowned repository of prints and drawings related to the history of medicine was bequeathed to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library in 1955.

Each set of note cards contains ten cards with five different prints (blank inside).  Stop by the Circulation Desk in the Library to view the cards and purchase a set to send to your family and friends.

The Clements C. Fry Collection
Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut


By Royal Authority. ANew Way of Mounting your Horse in spite of the Gout!!


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Anonymous British, 19th century
Published by Sidebotham, London
By Royal Authority. A New Way of Mounting Your Horse in Spite of the Gout!!, 1816
Hand colored etching, 253 x 354 mm


The Headache.

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George Cruikshank, British, 1792-1878
After Frederick Marryat, British, 1792-1848
The Headache, 1819
Hand colored etching, 210 x 255 mm


Oh my dear Doctor I think I've swallow'd a Mouse!

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Anonymous British, 19 th century
Published by W. Soffe, London
Oh Dear Doctor I Think I've Swallowed a Mouse!?

Hand colored lithograph, 282 x 170 mm


Champaign Driving Away Real Pain.

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George Hunt, British, 19 th century
And Theodore Lane, British, 1800-1828
Charles Wright's Champaign Driving Away Real Pain, ca. 1824-26
Hand colored aquatint, 207 x 251 mm


Roderick's Examination at Surgeons Hall.

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Joseph Constantine Stadler, German, active 1780-1812
After Samuel Collings, British, active 1780-91, d. 1795
Roderick's Examination at Surgeons Hall, 1800
Hand colored aquatint, 272 x 353 mm