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A surgeon removing a plaster from a man's back, with five people looking on. Oil painting attributed to Adriaen Rombouts, 16--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Above the door on the left, a red-chalk drawing of Fortuna (Fortune) on her wheel is pinned to the wall, perhaps to declare the uncertainty of human life, the unpredictability of health, and the "fleeting opportunity" of the healer which is mentioned in the first Hippocratic aphorism. Next to it is a wreath of osiers (used for tying together bunches of herbs?). On the back wall to the left of the shelves are two stills or alembics for chemical distillation. Objects strung together along a cord decorate the fronts of the shelves: they may be extracted bladder-stones (calculi)
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