Saint Blaise blessing a baby with a dangerous throat disease (such as diphtheria). Line engraving, 16--.

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[between 1600 and 1699?]
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586743i
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Saint Blaise blessing a baby with a dangerous throat disease (such as diphtheria). Line engraving, 16--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Austria] : [publisher not identified], [between 1600 and 1699?]

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1 print : engraving ; image and text 12.65 x 8 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/44/78

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S. Blasius Episc[opus] et M[artyr]. Gebett zum H. Blasio. Insonderheit vor seinem Altar zu Wienn in S. Michaelis Pfarrkirchen zu betten. O du Güttigister Herr Jesu ... von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit Amen. Below text, a prayer to be used before altar of St Blaise in St Michael's church, Vienna, to cure any named person of throat disease ("das gefahrliche Hals-wehe")

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Wellcome Collection 586743i

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