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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees
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A story described in an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Epigrammes, 1723, lib. I, epigram XI (from which the lettering on the present print was copied)
1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 31.8 x 25.3 cm
L'operateur…
A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares
1 print : etching ; platemark 31.8 x 23.3 cm
Lettering continues: "Allen staenden, leuten, die es am wenigsten glauben, Leuten, die von der Betrügerey leben, diesen ist die Ehr lichkeit, oder welches einerley ist, der Schein der Ehr lichkeit am…
Lettering continues: "Allen staenden, leuten, die es am wenigsten glauben, Leuten, die von der Betrügerey leben, diesen ist die Ehr lichkeit, oder welches einerley ist, der Schein der Ehr lichkeit am…
A medicinal dictionary
Table XLII-XLIII
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.
a miniature illustration in a fifteenth-century manuscript of Guy de Chauliac's La Grande chirurgie, in Montpellier, Bibliothèque Universitaire, Ms. fr. 184.
1 painting : gouache, with watercolour, pencil, gold highlights ; image 21.4 x 26.2 cm
A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor
1 photomechanical reproduction : lithograph
Lettering
Elle. -Le médecin est un peu comme un confesseur? Le docteur. -...Alors vous lui faites voir tout ca? ; Abel Faivre
Lettering
Elle. -Le médecin est un peu comme un confesseur? Le docteur. -...Alors vous lui faites voir tout ca? ; Abel Faivre
A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background
1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 34.6 x 29 cm
A practical system of surgery. By James Latta, ... Illustrated with cases on many of the subjects, and with copperplates. In three volumes. ...
v.1([2],2,505,[1]p.),plates ; 80.
A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on
1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour and gouache ; platemark 13.2 x 11.2 cm
A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people
1 print : etching ; platemark 32.2 x 41.3 cm
Lettering
Il ciarlatano, in Roma. Pinelli inv. et inc.
The salesman is holding a box full of medicines which has "Sanitas" inscribed on it. In the background, a papal coat of arms
Lettering
Il ciarlatano, in Roma. Pinelli inv. et inc.
The salesman is holding a box full of medicines which has "Sanitas" inscribed on it. In the background, a papal coat of arms