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  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • Esbatal : Esbatal has been shown to be preferred by the patients themselves as an anti-hypertensive therapy ...
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
  • Bloodletting from the foot. Oil painting after H. Daumier.
  • A physician and a surgeon attending to a woman patient. Oil painting by Matthijs Naiveu.
  • A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
  • Interior of a surgery with a woman having blood let from the arm, a surgeon treating a man's injured foot, and other figures. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • Esbatal : Esbatal has been shown to be preferred by the patients themselves as an anti-hypertensive therapy ...
  • The workplace of a female healer (midwife and surgeon), with signboard, from outside. Reproduction of wood engraving after H. Daumier, 1841.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a man's arm, he is aided by an older surgeon and an assistant, a woman (the patient's wife ?) is present. Engraving, 1586.
  • Anatomical figures (top); a physician takes the pulse of a sick man while the next two generations attend (bottom left); surgeons perform operations on a child and a woman. Etching by D. Berger, 1774, after D. Chodowiecki.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm. Oil painting.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Operators letting blood from the arm of a woman in a room crowded with pharmacy jars. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon at Whitworth in County Durham letting blood from Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, but leaving his patient in order to attend to a sick horse. Coloured etching by H.W., 1791.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.