Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.

  • Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.
Date:
1699
Reference:
17898i
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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