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"Palatable Physic" [medicine], 1810

Two men and a woman are sitting around a table drinking to their health; the man on the right suffers from gout. The man on the left, holding a glass of alcohol, claims "This good Appetite gives [sic]." The woman in the middle, holding a glass of alcohol, adds, "Cures the vapors also." The snarling man on the right, also holding a glass of alcohol, asks, "Will it Cure the Cursed Pain I have got in my toe?" Artist William Heath (1795-1840), London, 1810. (Source: Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. Public domain.)

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