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  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a man's arm. Oil painting.
  • A patient being bled by a surgeon with three dismayed onlookers; represented by five faun-like demons. Coloured etching.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A patient being bled by a surgeon with three dismayed onlookers; represented by five faun-like demons. Coloured etching.
  • A goose lets blood from a seated gentleman holding a crutch, while geese representing Portsmouth aldermen sit in council. Etching, 1761.
  • Il vero disegno degl'interiori del corpo umano : con instruttione, e regola, per sapere bene tagliare le vene in tutte le parti del detto corpo humano, secondo l'opinione de' medici antichi, & moderni più famosi / Di nuovo raccolte, & date in luce da Antonio Moneta.
  • A man rushing into a barber-surgeons' shop to inform the practitioner of the imminent need to vote. Lithograph.
  • Il vero disegno degl'interiori del corpo umano : con instruttione, e regola, per sapere bene tagliare le vene in tutte le parti del detto corpo humano, secondo l'opinione de' medici antichi, & moderni più famosi / Di nuovo raccolte, & date in luce da Antonio Moneta.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A surgeon-apothecary bleeding a patient, his servant boy catches the drops. Watercolour.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood from the foot of a girl, in the presence of five other figures. Oil painting after Richard Brakenburg.
  • Saint Francis Xavier: he is experiencing bloodletting from the arm. Engraving.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.
  • Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Lithograph by J.D. Harding, 1828, after E. Bristow.
  • A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Allmanach auff das 1581 jar ... / Durch Petrum Slovacium gestellet auff den Meridian der kayserlichen Stadt Breslaw.
  • Interior of a phlebotomist's shop with anthropomorphic participants. Coloured lithograph by J.D. Harding after E. Bristowe.
  • An ill man being bled by a surgeon. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.