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A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.
Reference: 15851i
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M0002909: The Stone Operation or The Witch of Mallegem.
Date: 26 April 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/24/65Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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M0002913: Cutting out the Stone of Madness, or an operation on the head
Date: 26 April 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/24/69Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.Reference: 17512i
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"Doctor Panurgus" curing the folly of his patients by purgative medicines and chemical cures. Line engraving attributed to Michael Droeshout, 16--.
Droeshout, Michael, approximately 1578-1638.Date: [between 1643 and 1667]Reference: 12024i- Books
Fecal matters in early modern literature and art : studies in scatology / edited by Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim ; general editors, Martin Stannard and Greg Walker.
Date: [2004], ©2004