A puzzled physician taking the pulse of a young female patient, a boy in the backgroung is pointing to arrows, suggesting that the malady is lovesickness. Engraving by S. Freeman after J. Opie.

"Ouch!" : a history of arrow wound treatment from prehistory to the nineteenth century / Kevin Goodman.

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"Ouch!" : a history of arrow wound treatment from prehistory to the nineteenth century / Kevin Goodman.

A puzzled physician taking the pulse of a young female patient, a boy in the backgroung is pointing to arrows, suggesting that the malady is lovesickness. Engraving by S. Freeman after J. Opie.