Scientific researches
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Author(s):
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
- Publication:
- [London] : Pubd. May 23, 1802 by H. Humphrey, [1802, printed 1851?]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Gases Human Experimentation Education, Continuing Flatulence London Royal Institution of Great Britain.
- Genre(s):
- Pictorial Works Caricatures
- Abstract:
- A burlesque on the Royal Institution, which had been recently founded. A group of fashionable people sits in a semi-circle and watches an experiment that takes place at a table in the center of a lecture hall. The lecturer experiments on another man by administering gas through a tube inserted in the latter's mouth while he pinches the subject's nostrils. The result is a violent explosion of flame and smoke from the subject's breeches. Audience members variously hold their noses, take snuff, write notes, or react with surprise.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 print : image 27 x 37 cm., on board 32 x 45 cm.
- Provenance:
- Gift; William H. Helfand; 2003; 03-75.
- Technique:
- engraving, black and white
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101457173 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- C05481
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101457173