A young fashionable apothecary-surgeon (?) about to give a sick wealthy lady an enema. Engraving by A. Bosse, 16--.

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A maid on the left carries a commode chair

Paris (en l'jste du Pallais) : Melchior Tavernier et Abraham Bosse, [between 1600 and 1699]

1 print : line engraving with etching

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/54/51

J'ay la siringue en main, hastez vous donc, Madam ... ABosse fe. Extensive lettering continues in French

N. Villa, Le XVIIe vu par Abraham Bosse graveur du Roy, Paris 1967, pl. 63

Laurinda S. Dixon, Some penetrating insights: the imagery of enemas in art, Art Journal vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 31-32

Wellcome Collection 16068i

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