Medicine, Caricature, Conspiration and pledge of the hunchbacks
MEDICINE - ORTHOPEDICS
"Conspiration et serment des Bossus"
Conspiration and pledge of the hunchbacks
Komplott und Schwur der Buckligen
Anonymous copper etching. Original hand coloring. Published in Paris, ca. 1800.
"Son éminence chef de la conspiration exhorte le corps respectable des Bossus, a tirer vengeance de l'insulte qui leur est faite dans la vaudeville incendiaire du combat des montagnesÉ très heureusement, cette vaste conspiration fut découverte assez a tems, pour eviter les résultats terreibles de celle des Calicots.
Translation: His Eminence head of the conspiration is in charge of the congregation of hunchbacks to take vengeance for the vaudeville mockery in a gigantic combate
Very fortunately this widely employed plot was discovered just in time to thwart the terrible results of these counterjumpers.
Very good condition. The print was formerly mounted, probably in a scotch book. There are mounting remnants verso in the four corners. Narrow margins
Image: 26 x 19,4 cm (ca. 10.2 x 7.6"), including text: 30,5 cm (ca. 12")
Keywords:
Kyphosis; abnormally excessive convex curvature of the spine; thoracic; sacral; lordotic curving of the cervical and lumbar regions of the spine is called lordosis; degenerative disc disease; developmental abnormalities, Scheuermann's disease; osteoporosis; compression fractures; vertebra; multiple myeloma; or trauma; hyperkyphosis