Killing Two Birds with One Stone, 1810
Entitled: "Medical Dispatch or Doctor Doubledose Killing Two Birds With One Stone". Physician takes the pulse of an old woman while caressing her daughter. A jar marked "Opium" and a bottle marked "Composing draught" rest on a side table. Etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1810. Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.
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