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Allegory of surgery. Engraving with etching by B. L. Prevost. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
On the right, a female figure, symbolic of surgery, prunes dry branches of a tree. In the centre, a statue of Aesculapius, with a rooster and a raven on the plinth. Background left, an infant, symbolic of orthopaedics, straightens a crooked tree, whereas another infant, probably symbolic of bloodletting, drains fluid from a tree. In the foreground, infants collect and prepare herbs. A heron flies overhead. On the ground, numerous medicinal plants, among them aloe, plantin, rhubarb and others.
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