A physician, a woman patient and an alchemist (?). Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans I.

In the laboratory of an apothecary, alchemist, or medical practitioner, a woman has her pulse taken by a standing man and her urine read by a man seated at a table. The standing man, perhaps a physician (though a physician would be out of context in these surroundings), wears a wig and a brown coat, and bears some resemblance to the Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738). The seated man wears an old-fashioned ruff of the kind worn in the first half of the seventeenth century. In the foreground, academic books, medicine jars, and distilling apparatus