Concept

Dissertations, Academic

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  • Aesculapius, representing medicine, receives homage from putti who bring him symbols of botany, natural history, chemistry and anatomy. Engraving by A. Nunzer, 1748.
  • Surgery: a doctoral candidate defending a thesis in surgery at the Académie Royale de Chirurgie, Paris. Etching by P.F. Tardieu after C. Eisen, 1751.
  • An academic doctoral disputation, in which the production of a medical thesis is compared to human excretion. Aquatint by J.F. Martin after L.J. Desprez, 179-.
  • An academic doctoral disputation, in which the production of a medical thesis is compared to human excretion. Aquatint by J.F. Martin after L.J. Desprez, 179-.

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