Saint Camillus de Lellis comforting patients in hospital. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.

St. Camillus de Lellis was canonised by Benedict XIV in 1746, declared (along with St. John of God) the patron of the sick and hospitals by Leo XIII in 1886, later by Pius XI in 1930 their patronage was extended to include nurses and nursing in the catholic faith

Saint Camillus was the founder of the Order of Camillians or the Order of Clerics Regular, servants of the sick

A[ugustae] V[indelicorum] [Augsburg] : Klauber Cath. C[um] p[rivilegio] s[uae] C[aesareae] M[ajestatis]

1 print : line engraving

Dum victum proebet oegris Camillus,... ab errat incerla ambage viarum. ... Klauber Cath. sc. et exc. A.V. Lettering continues with quotes from the Bible Bears number: 16

Wellcome Collection 17573i