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A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth he has just extracted on stage to try and sell his skills; his two companions are treating a sick man
1 print : etching ; platemark 22.2 x 25 cm
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin
1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 16.3 x 11.7 cm
The infallible mountebank or quack doctor. ...
The infallible mountebank or quack doctor. ...
A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them
The Opposition politicians are represented as quacks beguiling the people with advocacy of reform and clamour against corruption in high places. Samuel Whitbread stands on a platform holding a placard inscribed "Infallible panacea-Reform"; in his…
Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it
Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925
Feldtbůh der Wundartzney: newlich getruckt vnd gebessert
[6], cv, [1] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates
Binding Note:
NLM copy, bound contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, with two metal clasps on leather.
Binding Note:
NLM copy, bound contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, with two metal clasps on leather.
Feldbuch der Wundartzney
Engraving of surgical instruments opposite folio 1.
Avant l'opération: salon de 1887
photogravure based on Gervex 1887 salon painting of Pean
Le docteur Péan
View of a half naked woman on a table surrounded by physicians. Dr. Péan is in the foreground.
photogravure
photogravure
A system of surgery: pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic and operative (Volume 1)
6th ed., thoroughly rev. and greatly improved
with illustrations - various pertinent tools and interesting portraits
with illustrations - various pertinent tools and interesting portraits