3-101-486 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Que pico de oro!, (What a silver tongue!), Plate 53 from 'Los Caprichos', 1799. 'This smacks of an academic board meeting. Who knows if the parrot is actually talking about medicine? In any case, one shouldn't take his word for it. There are doctors who are silver-tongued orators yet act like Herod when prescribing: they discourse flawlessly on ailments without ever curing them - they beguile the sick while filling graveyards with skulls.'