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Images about Eye - Diseases - Treatment

6 images from works
  • The hollow eyes of blind Tobit are anointed with fish gall by Tobias. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet, 1767, after R. Earlom after Agostino Carracci.
  • An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).
  • Thomas Colledge attending a patient at his eye hospital in Macau. Aquatint by W. Daniell, 1834, after G. Chinnery.
  • Thomas Colledge attending a patient at his eye hospital in Macau. Aquatint by W. Daniell, 1834, after G. Chinnery.
  • Tobit anointing his father's eyes with the gall of a fish to cure his blindness. Red chalk drawing by B. Picart, 1725, after A. Carracci.
  • An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).

Works from the collections

17 works

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    Carapēntirar vaitya muṟaikaḷ : nayaṉa rōka cikiccai / patippāciriyarkaḷ T. S. Amrutaliṅkam Piḷḷai, Dr. S. Veṅkaṭṭarājaṉ.

    | Carapēntirar. | Date: 1959
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    An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).

    | Thomas Rowlandson | Date: [1800?] | Reference: 645283i
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    Über die Anwendung der Kälte bei Augenkrankheiten / von Eduard Dürr.

    | Dürr, Leopold Julius Gotthilf Eduard. | Date: 1875
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    La pratique des maladies des yeux dans les hôpitaux de Paris : aide-mémoire et formulaire de thérapeutique appliquée / par Paul Lefert.

    | Lefert, Paul. | Date: 1895
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    The hollow eyes of blind Tobit are anointed with fish gall by Tobias. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet, 1767, after R. Earlom after Agostino Carracci.

    | Agostino Carracci | Date: 1767 | Reference: 21509i
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Ophthalmology
Eye Diseases

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