A new print. This day is published, Patent exercise, or, Les caprices de la goute : ballet arthritique: being a companion to Jason & Medea, ballet tragique. To be had at Mr. Sandby's in St. Georges Row ... General heads of the never-failing and salutary effects daily produced by the patent health restoring exercise. ...

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Francis Grose
1731?-1791
A new print. This day is published, Patent exercise, or, Les caprices de la goute : ballet arthritique: being a companion to Jason & Medea, ballet tragique. To be had at Mr. Sandby's in St. Georges Row ... General heads of the never-failing and salutary effects daily produced by the patent health restoring exercise. ...
[London] : [publisher not identified] [1785?]
Peel 1258
Published: 
[London] : [publisher not identified] [1785?]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

A humorous advertisement for a caricature print on the subject of Abraham Buzaglo's prescribed treatment for gout through muscular exercises, as outlined in his "A Treatise on the Gout" (1785), the text being a parody of an advertisement issued by Buzaglo which read, "General heads of the never-failing salutary effects produced daily by A. Buzaglo's discoveries ...".
Anonymous. By Francis Grose.
Library's copy accompanies impressions of the two prints advertised in this broadside (See Peel 1176b and Peel 1176c).

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