A grand consultation of physitians: or, an attempt to assign the cause of a sickly & languishing constitution; prescribing the most salutary & probable methods for effecting a cure.
[London : s.n.,
1756]
Title from text at head of design.
With a verse in four columns at foot of design: "O Muse these emblematick Forms expound".
"Publish'd July 23 1756 According to Act of Parliament by J. Eynon ye Corner of Castle Alley in Threadneedle Street. price 6 d."
An engraving showing a table on which are lying axes and a halter. In an arm-chair sits a swollen, lethargic patient surrounded by ten physicians all of whom are offering opinions as to the patient's treatment.
The patient is Britain, and the ministers are the persons whom the physicians, i.e., the people, think fit subjects for the axe or halter.
George,
Public opinion