Judge, 1900-10-20 · page 26 of 26
Judge — October 20, 1900 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical cartoons lampooning medical professionals and their dubious diagnostic methods. **Top cartoon:** A doctor (Dr. Liverrap) diagnoses illness in the Jones household based on observing a boy singing cheerfully on his way to school. The satire mocks doctors who make presumptive diagnoses without proper examination—assuming a child's good mood indicates a sick sibling at home who will require absence from school. **Bottom cartoon:** A photographer attempts to take a portrait of "Ma. Liverrap" (the doctor's wife), but she appears visibly uncomfortable. The joke reveals she's being held in painful mechanical clamps behind her head—standard photography equipment of the era that required subjects to remain perfectly still. She sarcastically agrees to look "pleasant as a clam" once the device is removed. The satire criticizes both medical pretension and the discomfort inflicted by period photography technology, using the doctor's household to ridicule both professions.
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HIS DIAGNOSIS. Doctor Liverrap—"'Ha! There's the Jones boy singing cheerfully while on his way to school, I must go around to his house at once. His little sister must be down with the measles, and he's going to tell the teacher be can't attend for a month.” COPYRIGNT 1990 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. ‘packed Wilson Like & Pg Co Rew York WHY HE DIDN'T LOOK HAPPY. PuorocrarHer—'* Will you try to look pleasant and banish that horrible expression? You look as if you were being murdered.” Ma. Livennvaxin—"* Yalan, indeed. Jest de minnit yo'r assistant unscrews dem clamps dat's marderin’ de back ob mah bead I'll look as pleasant as a clam.” comicbooks.com