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Costume - France - History

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31 images from works
  • Mademoiselle Hardouin, a woman who is paralysed in both legs and has to be transported everywhere. Engraving.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.
  • A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.
  • Ambroise Paré, as an apprentice barber-surgeon in a busy shop in Paris. Wood engraving by J. Ansseau after E. Morin.
  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.
  • Ambroise Paré, removing the head of a spear from the face of the Duc de Guise. Wood engraving by J. Ansseau after E. Morin.
  • A public square in a French port, in which a medicine vendor cries up his wares to an audience of traders and strollers. Coloured aquatint by J. Léveillé, 1785, after A. Borel.
  • The ages of man represented in a step scheme; with the divine judgement under the stairs. Coloured etching.

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    A fierce battle between the supporters of John Brown (Bruno), in favour of treatment with stimulants, and those of F.J.V. Broussais, in favour of bloodletting. Pen drawing.

    | Reference: 24101i
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    Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

    Boilard, active approximately 1720. | Reference: 20262i
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    Philippe Sergent, suffering from ankylosis of the left leg, walking to the tomb of François de Paris, with crutches and aided by his wife. Engraving, 173-.

    | Date: 1730-1739 | Reference: 18535i
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    Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.

    | Reference: 18502i
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    A physician administering a clyster to an embarrassed woman who hides her self and presents her behind through a window, female friends observe the scene. Photograph after a stone bas-relief in Bruges archaeological museum.

    | Reference: 20223i

Related topics

Surgeons
Dogs
Patients
Enema
François de Pâris
Wigs
Surgery, Operative
Quackery
Horses
Selling - Drugs

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