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  • A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
  • An old fortune-teller is looking at a young woman's palm. Engraving, 1670/1700.
  • Hebrew midwives refusing to kill male babies after being ordered to do so by the Pharoah of Egypt. Engraving by P.P. Bouché after G. Freeman, ca. 1694.