Entitled: "Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy." The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or Tristram Shandy) is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne. It purports to be a biography of the eponymous character. Its style is marked by digression, double entendre, and graphic devices. Dr Slop is a choleric physician and man-midwife summoned by Shandy's father to attend his son's imminent birth. In performing a forceps delivery of the baby, Slop damages the infant's nose, and is obliged to perform a rudimentary rhinoplasty using cotton thread and a piece of whalebone from a maid's corset. Slop has been listed as one of the "Ten Best Bad Doctors" in literature. Colored etching by Henry William Bunbury.