"Copied from one of a set of satirical prints on medicine made by Desprez in Sweden ... This English copy was first published (from an impression in the Library of Congress) by Richard Godfrey in 'Print Quarterly', III 1986, pp. 238-40. Richard Godfrey suggested that the engraver might be the Swedish engraver J.F.Martin. The attribution to Frederick George Byron was made by Andrew Edmunds."--British Museum online catalog.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Satire on medicine: to the right, a man sits on a close stool holding a steaming glass vessel; behind him a doctor reads from a large volume propped against the lid of the stool; he wears a tall hat, large glasses and an ermine-trimmed robe which is held by a man with a moustache, hat, lace-trimmed collar and cloak who carries a sword; men in white pierrot costumes stand on either side behind the doctor each holding a large candle the smoke from which partly obscures the doctor's hat; at the end of the procession are three men in the same costumes carrying clysters on their shoulders; all are in profile to right and have large noses. Cf. George.