Originally advertised as “A Consultation of Quacks,” Hogarth fashions a mock coat of arms for medical practitioners featured here in their typical persona—professionally grave in manner, elaborately wigged, and porting gold-headed canes containing disinfectant. The Latin phrase on the banner reads “everywhere the image of death.” The upper register features three notorious quacks: John Taylor, who styled himself “Opthalmiator Pontifical, Imperial, and Royal,” Sarah Mapp, a bone setter who once called herself “crazy Sally,” and Dr. Joshua “Spot” Ward, whose famous pill was more apt to kill than cure.