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  • Mademoiselle Hardouin, a woman who is paralysed in both legs and has to be transported everywhere. Engraving.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • 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.
  • Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • 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.
  • Ambroise Paré, as an apprentice barber-surgeon in a busy shop in Paris. Wood engraving by J. Ansseau after E. Morin.
  • 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.
  • A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.

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Surgeons
Dogs
Patients
Enema
Wigs
Horses
Surgery, Operative
Quackery
Selling - Drugs
Military uniforms