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Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.

An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.

A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.

Doctor Jeremy Snob / written by J.G. Maxwell.

A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.

A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.

A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.

Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.

A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.

Esbatal : the happiest choice for your hypertensive patients.

A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.

A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.

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.

Lafourcade, Raymond Fils ( -1784)

Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.

On gout ; its history, its causes, and its cure. / By William Gairdner.

De sanguinis missione. De purgatione (Incomplete)

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Bloodletting

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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.

Lafourcade, Raymond Fils ( -1784)

Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.

On gout ; its history, its causes, and its cure. / By William Gairdner.

De sanguinis missione. De purgatione (Incomplete)

Bloodletting

Images from the collections

Images referencing Bloodletting

Works from the collections

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.

Lafourcade, Raymond Fils ( -1784)

Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.

On gout ; its history, its causes, and its cure. / By William Gairdner.

De sanguinis missione. De purgatione (Incomplete)

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