An allegory of surgery. Engraving by R. Benard after B.L. Prevost, 17--.

[Paris], [between 1700 and 1799]

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 35.7 x 22.7 cm

Chirurgie, frontispice. Prevost del. Benard fecit.

On the right, an allegorical figure of surgery amputates a branch of a sick tree. Centre, a statue of Aesculapius, with a rooster and another bird in front of the plinth. Left background an infant straightening a crooked tree, an allegory of orthopaedics. Left, an infant draining fluid from a tree (allegory of bloodletting?). Foreground, infants collecting and preparing herbs. Above, a heron. On the ground, medicinal plants: aloe, plantin, rhubarb, etc. A ship sails on the sea in the distance

Wellcome Collection 94i