Photo of Puck,Physician of the Period,1897,Dalrymple,Social Classes,Wage Price
Title: The physician of the period / Dalrymple.
Creator(s): Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1897 December 22.
Summary: Print shows an elderly physician sitting in a chair in an office, hanging on the wall is a fee schedule labeled, on the left, 'Ailments for People of Moderate Means. Low Fees' and on the right, 'Same Ailments for Rich Patients. Fees Accordingly'. For example, on the left 'Colic $5.00' becomes, on the right, 'Appendicitis $1000.00', 'Earache 5.00' becomes 'Otitis Media 250.00', 'Indigestion 5.00' becomes 'Acute Gastro-Enteretis 400.00', and 'That Tired Feeling 5.00' becomes 'Neurasthenia 350.00'. A young messenger boy is delivering a message and in the background, well-dressed patients are sitting in a waiting room.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: He has ordinary and inexpensive ailments for ordinary patients and high-sounding and costly maladies for the rich.
Illus. from Puck, v. 42, no. 1085, (1897 December 22), cover.
Copyright 1897 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Copyright stamps appear at top left margin.
Subjects:
Physicians--1890-1900.
Cost & standard of living--1890-1900.
Social classes--1890-1900.
Wage-price policy--1890-1900.
Prices--1890-1900.
Messengers--1890-1900.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1890-1900.
Chromolithographs--Color--1890-1900.
Magazine covers--1890-1900.
Periodical illustrations--1890-1900.
Bookmark /2012647642/
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