A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.

Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim [Paracelsus]. Line engraving by J. B. Fosseyeux.

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