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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
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Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
Boilard, active approximately 1720.Reference: 20262i
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Philippe Sergent, suffering from ankylosis of the left leg, walking to the tomb of François de Paris, with crutches and aided by his wife. Engraving, 173-.
Date: 1730-1739Reference: 18535i
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Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.
Reference: 18502i
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A physician administering a clyster to an embarrassed woman who hides her self and presents her behind through a window, female friends observe the scene. Photograph after a stone bas-relief in Bruges archaeological museum.
Reference: 20223i
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Alphonse de Palacios, who suffered so severely from an infection of the retina that he was unable to look at any light. Engraving.
Reference: 18529i
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A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
Reference: 17440i
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A revolutionary complains of bowel problems to a doctor; a clyster seat waits nearby. Lithograph by C.J. Traviès, c. 1833.
TravièsDate: [c. 1833]Reference: 16554i
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A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.
Reference: 22256i
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Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.
Claude Louis DesraisReference: 17918i
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A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
Date: [1738]Reference: 22371i
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A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
Jean-Antoine WatteauDate: [1841]Reference: 20717i
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A surgeon and two assistants using pulleys and ropes to aid traction for manipulating the body of a male patient. Woodcut, 1575.
Date: 1575Reference: 22729i
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A surgeon and his assistant operating on a patient's head and using a drill to perform the trephination. Engraving, 1731.
Date: [1731]Reference: 22320i
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Ambroise Paré, removing the head of a spear from the face of the Duc de Guise. Wood engraving by J. Ansseau after E. Morin.
Edmond MorinDate: 1800-1899Reference: 22689i
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A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Jacques BertauxDate: [1777]Reference: 20598i
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A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 546400i
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Ambroise Paré, as an apprentice barber-surgeon in a busy shop in Paris. Wood engraving by J. Ansseau after E. Morin.
Edmond MorinDate: 1800-1899Reference: 22687i
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A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.
Reference: 22994i
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An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
Eugène DevériaDate: [1831]Reference: 16375i
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The ages of man represented in a step scheme; with the divine judgement under the stairs. Coloured etching.
Reference: 26288i
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A surgeon amputating a patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
Date: [1738]Reference: 22370i
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Mademoiselle Hardouin, a woman who is paralysed in both legs and has to be transported everywhere. Engraving.
Reference: 18537i
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Ambroise Paré using a ligature on an artery of an amputated leg of a soldier, during the Siege of Metz, 1553. Photogravure after T. Chartran, 1889.
Théobald ChartranDate: 1889Reference: 22690i
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Catherine Bigot, a deaf-mute woman whose deafness was so complete that she was unaware of a gun being fired above her head. Engraving.
Reference: 18527i