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  • Ascanius hunting the pet stag of Silvia. Etching by W. Hollar, 1652, after F. Cleyn.
  • A wax model of the brain and head (figs 1-2) by F. La Croix after G. Duverney and a wax model of a section of the brain made by Russel, "chirurgien major des Gardes-du-corp" (fig. 3) Engraving by Moitte after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Itinerant medicine vendors in Rome. Oil painting attributed to Dirk Helmbreker.
  • Itinerant medicine vendors in Rome. Oil painting attributed to Dirk Helmbreker.
  • Itinerant medicine vendors in Rome. Oil painting attributed to Dirk Helmbreker.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.