]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fk76rw85]]> Interior scene of a man on his death-bed, surrounded by several figures, including a man holding the dying man's outstretched right arm as though feeling for his pulse, three other men looking on with concern, and three women seated at the foot of the bed, two of whom are weeping. A coin-filled chest and other displays of wealth figure prominently.]]> Technique:
engraving]]> Contributor(s):
Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101392720]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jds3bdb2]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/concepts/kvzggfhw]]> ]]> Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the ground reads "Lies told faster than a horse can gallop. Nann Manning, Lynn Regis"
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y84ckk5j]]> ]]> (Weymouth 1775 – 1863 Oxford), was an English painter and printmaker.]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ahhwjsxy]]>
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm

State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd sisters. "The house is full of quacks - jugglers and plagiaries" - L'Estrange."Thus were they plagu'd and worn with famine" - Milton.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour

The tractors. A new discovered virtue in these invaluable operators most cordially recommeded to the public at large and to Dr. Perkins in in [sic] particular as a likely means of preventing more murder than all the poenal statues. CW esqr. delt.]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sgus9kj6]]> ]]> ]]> Reprinted from: Medical record (Dec. 15, 1894)
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The instrument used by the operator is the "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne), as described by Jean-Adrien Helvetius in Traité des pertes de sang .. accompagné de sa lettre sur la nature et guérison du cancer, Paris 1697, pp. 153-155 and folding plate f.p. 153; L. Heister, Institutiones chirurgicae, Amsterdam 1739, vol. 2, pp. 740-741 and tab. XXIII fig. 1. A similar instrument is used by Saint Agatha's torturer in an earlier (ca. 1600?) engraving by Philips Galle]]> Traité des pertes de sang de quelque espece qu'elles soient, avec leur remede specifique, nouvellement découvert ... Accompagné de sa Lettre sur la nature & la guerison du cancer]]>
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