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Broussais instructs a nurse to carry on bleeding a blood-besmeared patient. Coloured lithograph after V.L.
- L., V.
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- 16372i
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Description
The "system of Broussais" was principally a regime of dieting and bleeding. It had a notoriously indiscriminate application in the Parisian cholera epidemic of 1832
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 19.3 x 16.6 cm
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Lettering
Système de Broussais. V.L. ...
Lettering note
Lettering continues: Mais je n'ai plus une goutte de sang dans les veines!! C'est égal; encore 50 sang-sues. [On wall:] Oeuvres complettes de Broussais 1. vol in 64.
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 16372i
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Languages
- French
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Location Status Access Closed stores