Satire on the dispute among  medical men about the treatment of George Clarke who had been hit on the head in the violence at the Brentford hustings on 8 December and died a few days later. On the left, surgeons and apothecaries suggest variously a clyster, trepanning and “A Court Plaister [that] will remove ye seat of ye Disorder”; Clarke himself  is seated on a chair.  On the right a group of onlookers describe Clarke as suffering from a fever; one man says, “Thank God we need not fear being knocked on ye Head then”, another comments “I catch’d a Fever from a bludgeon at Brentford myself” and another, referring to Edward McQuirk and  Balfe two Irish chairmen said to have been employed by Sir William Proctor (John WIlkes's opponent), adds “I wish those Irish Dogs had kept ye distemper to themselves It’s worse than the Itch”.  
<p><br>An impression of this plate faces page 145 of the Universal Museum for April 1769
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1769<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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