Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.

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Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The allopathic doctor, dressed in red, tramples on a book while the homoeopath tramples on pills and medicine bottles. The former is fatter than the homoeopath, but the latter is more dandified

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Metz : Fabrique d'images de Gangel

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1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour

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La guerre des médecins des 18.e et 19.e siècles. Pauvre malade! il ne lui manque plus qu l'hydropathie!!! ... A Kraehwinkel hélas! les médecins savans,/ Vont disputant toujours si les pauvres patiens,/ Seront guéris plutôt par l'Homoeopathie (1). /Que les médicamens de la vieille Allopathie (2)./ Mais, tout en attendant les belles discussions/ De ces savans Pathos et leurs prétentions,/ Que fait le moribond? il souffre et perd la vie,/ Victime des débats de cette triste manie. (1) L'Homoeopathie, mot tiré du grec et qui veut dire l'art guérir par les sembables c'est-à-dire, êtes-vous empoisonné, prenez des poisons. (2) L'Allopathie, c'est l'art de guérir par l'emploi ancien de drogues, médecines, pillules, etc. [The man in red holds a canister with a banner saying:] Prendre toutes les 5 minut. une cuillerée. [In the pocket of the man in blue, a book with the legend:] Pharmacie Homoeopathique Bears number: 24

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Lettering repeated in German
See Wellcome Library no. 17855i for a different version of this print

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Wellcome Collection 16872i

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