Doctor Slop
id:
doctor-slop-258-380232
title:
Doctor Slop
text:
Dr Slop is a choleric physician and "man-midwife" Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine in Laurence Sterne's novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759). The doctor is summoned by Tristram Shandy's father to attend his son's imminent birth. Slop makes his first appearance in Chapter 34 of the novel, where he is described as: He is portrayed as an incompetent quack, arriving at Shandy Hall having forgotten his array of "vile instruments" and "obstetrical engines", which
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Slop
date created:
date modified:
2024-02-05T21:57:12Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q5287386","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5287386"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Dr._Slop%2C_with_his_wig_on_fire%2C_angrily_gesticulating_to_Sus_Wellcome_V0016123.jpg","width":3308,"height":2392}
fields total:
13
integrity:
14