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Czar Alexander of Russia offers his handkerchief as bandage to a man rescued from drowning. Stipple engraving by J. Girtin, 1806. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Below the main image are the front and back of a medal made in honour of the incident with lettering: "Lateat scintillula forsan. Soc. Lond. in recuscitat intermortuorum instit. MDCCLXXIV. Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum. puto. hoc. pretium cive servato tulit. Alexandro imperatori societas regia humana humillimé donat 1806. Go and do thou like wise."
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