Christ cures a woman with a haemorrhage. Etching, 17--.

Date:
1700-1799
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23872i
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The woman's "flow of blood" is often identified with menstrual disorder, or sometimes menorrhagia, unpredictable bleeding before the menopause. Mark and Luke describe the failure of physicians to heal her over twelve years. They also describe how Christ, who is being jostled by a large crowd, suddenly feels "a force go forth from him" and identifies the woman who has sapped it

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1700-1799

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1 print : etching ; platemark 27.9 x 20.2 cm

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Behold a woman which was diseas'd with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him & touched ye hem of his garment. For she said within her self, if I may but touch the hem of his garment I shall be whole. ... Lettering continues: "But Jesus turn'd him about & said Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made the [sic] whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. Mat. IX. ve. 20"

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Wellcome Collection 23872i

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