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Bloodletting

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Blood - Collection and preservation

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Images about Bloodletting

134 images from works
  • 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.
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Works from the collections

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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
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    MS.40

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    MS.41

    • Archives and manuscripts

    MS.236

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    MS.97

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