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Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.

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National characteristics, Arab

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Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.