Early Georgian London was dogged by disease and by the army of physicians, barber-surgeons, bone-setters, apothecaries, anatomists, male midwives and general quackery who purported to offer cures or treatment.  And what to do with Anne Croft of Godalming who appeared to be giving birth to rabbits?  Hogarth’s images teem with the sores and issues of his day, illuminated by his involvement as a governor of four London hospitals.

First given in 2005 at the Royal Institution 

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