English: Satire on the medical profession from the Oxford Magazine, 1769, facing page 88; the suggestion is that members of the College of Surgeons were bribed to conclude that George Clarke's death was not caused by the blow to his head received during the riots at the Brentford election in December 1768 (see BM Satires 4224). A group of surgeons surround a table. The president of the meeting in a large chair holds up a bag of money saying “This Convinces me that Cl[ar]k did not dye of the Wound he receiv’d at Br[entfor]d”; the index finger of his other hand points to a paper lying on the table on which is written “It does not appear to us that he died. . .”. Other surgeons add, “Gold is good Evidence and carries great Weight”, “Another such bag would convince me that Cl[ar]k never receiv’d any blow”, “By my Saul his head was too thick to be broken or he would ne’er ha ganged to Br[entfor]d” (this man wearing a Scotch bonnet), and “Devil burn me but that some surgeon was a blockhead: how should a Foot be able to judge of the Head?”; Mr Foot, or Foote, was a surgeon who declared that Clarke had died from the blow to his head. 1769
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