DOCTOR V. PATIENT

Exodus, or Simplified procedure of collecting the Doctor's fee was drawn by the roistering British cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), whose caricatures of the classic struggle between doctors & patients were shown last week at the History of Medicine Association in Atlantic City. Other rowdy Rowlandsons :

Way of Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner to Day! !"

Chamber War, a scene of furious activity, in which a billowing nurse is shown attacking three big-bellied doctors with a bedpan, while a skeleton embraces the terrified patient.

Miseries of Human Life, which shows a massive nurse slouched by a fire while her patient struggles in bed. The legend: ". . . humors of a hired Nurse who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort . . . stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat--slops you as you lie with scalding possets [milk & ale] ... falls into a dead sleep the moment before you want her, and then snores you down when you call to her. . . ."

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