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Les caprices de la goute, Ballet arthritique
Description
English: A room in the establishment of Abraham Buzaglo, whose treatment of the gout by 'muscular exercises' is here satirized. Men with their limbs strapped into wooden cases are performing exercises. A stout man whose arms are extended by a wooden frame or jacket strapped across chest and arms, his thighs similarly encased and extended, capers on one leg, the other is swathed in a stocking (perhaps one of the 'bootikins' described by Horace Walpole, 'Letters', x. 342, 30 Oct. 1778, &c). On each side of him is a man in a contorted attitude, with legs or leg encased (the other leg being swathed). Each wooden case is inscribed 'Buzaglo'.


In the background (left) Buzaglo himself, apparently, stands in profile to the left superintending his assistant, who is strapping the leg of a patient into a case; the other leg is already encased; his crutches are beside him. Against the centre of the back wall is an elaborate stove, inscribed Buzaglo. On the wall (right and left) hang two pairs of leg-cases.
In front of the design, as if decorating the front of a stage, is a placard nailed above a pair of crossed crutches:

"Patent Muscular Health-restoring Exercise.
I. It takes off within the hour all Pains from the Shoulders, Elbows, Sides, Back, Knees, Calves & Ancles.
II. It radically cures the Cramp, dissipates callous Swellings round the Knees & Ancles originating from the Gout.
III. It restores wasted Calves to their former state of fullness of Flesh.
IV. It greatly facilitates the Discharge of the Gravel." 1 Jan 1783


Etching and aquatint
Depicted people Representation of: Abraham Buzaglo
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 405 millimetres
Width: 474 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1904,1130.13
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Abraham Buzaglo, a Jew (d. 1788), first attracted notice as an inventor of heating apparatus, then set up as a gout doctor, professing to cure by-muscular exercises only. He advertised extensively and was considered a quack. Walpole, 'Letters', x. 168-9 and n. A. Buzaglo, 'A Treatise on the Gout', 3rd ed., 1778. Cf. Anstey's 'Election Ball' 1776, probably an allusion to Buzaglo:

"No - I'd have thee to know that I walks pretty stout Zince IV vound an invallible cure for the Gout Vor the Doctor I've try'd has with Wedges and Pegs Zo stretched out my zinews and hammer'd my Legs, Zo zuppl'd the Joint by Tormenting the Tendon My Heel I can raise, and my Toe I can bend down.

A humorous handbill advertising the print calls it 'a companion to Jason & Medee, Ballet Tragique', see BMSat 5910.

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An impression of the flier mentioned by Dorothy George is placed in the Sandby series (see J,5.23), and explains the image.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1904-1130-13
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