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So shall England, escap’d from her safe Politicians, Such an Army array of her Quacks and Physicians— Such Lotions and Potions, Pills, Lancets, and Leeches, That Massena 41 shall tremble, our coast when he reaches               And the Consul 42 himself p— his breeches. 107 Cruikshank/Hone, ‘The Doctor’ from <italic>Man in the Moon</italic> (1820) https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429348143/49c33773-622a-4f40-ae25-12c9d98688d9/content/fig_6.tif"/> Source: William Hone and George Cruikshank, The Man in the Moon, London, W. Hone, 1820, p. 20–21. 108 Gillray, ‘The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver’ (1803) https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429348143/49c33773-622a-4f40-ae25-12c9d98688d9/content/fig_7.tif"/> Source: The Works of James Gillray, from the Original Plates, London, Henry G. Bohn, 1851, plate 286.