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Burns and scalds

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  • A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.
  • King Charles the Bad of Navarre being burnt to death in bed, while others pray and panic about him. Engraving.
  • A masquerade in which King Charles VI of France and some others, dressed as wildmen in shaggy costumes, are nearly burned to death by accident. Aquatint by J. Harris after J. Froissart.
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    Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de ambustionibus et de combustione spontanea complectens ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Kincaid Pitcairn.

    Pitcairn, George Kincaid. | Date: 1830
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    A masquerade in which King Charles VI of France and some others, dressed as wildmen in shaggy costumes, are nearly burned to death by accident. Aquatint by J. Harris after J. Froissart.

    Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410? | Reference: 32698i
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    Gulielm, Fabricius Hildamus, his experiments in chyrurgerie : concerning combustions or burnings made with gun powder, iron shot, hot-water, lightning, or any other fiery matter whatsoever : in which is excellently described the differences, signs, prognostication and cures, of all accidents and burning themselves : very necessary and useful for all gentlemen, and soldiers as well of the trayned bands, as others, especially upon sudden occasions / translated out of Latine by Iohn Steer, Chyrurgeon.

    Fabricius Hildanus, Wilhelm, 1560-1634 | Date: 1642
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    A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.

    | Reference: 20671i
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    Dissertatio medica, de partibus corporis adustis, earumque curatione. Auctore Edvardo Kentish, M.D.

    Kentish, Edward, -1832. | Date: 1800
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