The interior of a doctor's surgery. A stout butcher (left) with a knife in his right hand has seized the cravat of a grotesquely lean and terror-stricken doctor, who puts out his hands in terror. Behind the doctor appears the end of a table or bench (right) on which are arranged medicine phials, pill-boxes, a jar and a pestle. Behind the butcher is an open door. Beneath the title is engraved:
<p><br><br>"Butcher. Prepare Sir - you poison'd my wife----------
<br>and by Jupiter I'll Butcher you--------------
<br>Doctor.   Good Sir-------hear me --- Indeed-------
<br>upon my Honor it was only?------only only
<br>-------A Physical Error."  25 January 1782
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<p>Print made by: James Gillray
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<dl><dd>Published by: William Humphrey</dd></dl></div>
1782<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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