A Quack in the Right Place Kimber carrying a large basket

carrying a large basket

Found in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art

top right 'How to make the most of the mud'

View with allegorical figures and objects around a table

City sportsmen'

A Quack in the Right Place Kimber carrying a large basket'A Quack in the Right Place; Or, What we Should Like to See', 1864. A quack doctor is pelted with his own preparations, together with carrots and the occasional dead cat. The potions ministered by quack doctors were almost always useless, and sometimes deadly. This cartoon accompanied an articles entitled 'How to Quash the Quacks'. Three points were proposed: first that the Medical Council, which had the power to proceed against persons giving medical