A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.

  • Edme-Jean Pigal
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A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : A. Sharpe

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.7 x 18.7 cm

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Leeches; gentlemen, leeches! Pigal ... Lettering on envelope: Good wine. An emetic. Bleed him.

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Wellcome Collection 16364i

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Originally part of the French series 'Moeurs parisiennes'

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