Allegory of surgery. Engraving with etching by B. L. Prevost.

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.