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The two references to the Jesuits may provide the key to the print. The Jesuit order was repressed in France in 1764. The gravestone from which the skeleton emerges says 'Here lies the Society of Jesus 17..' which may indicate the contemporaneity of the events surrounding the suppression of the Jesuits
A bearded god holds a pump to the dying man's head, to which the latter is holding his left hand; the names detailed below spume out of a funnel on the pump. A Medusa figure in a red skirt lunges at the dying man with a fork-tongued serpent and a dagger. Mercury stands behind her on a pedestal with the caduceus in his left hand. A skeleton in a blue priestly vestment blows out of a hole in the bottom left-hand corner and points at the man; behind him lurk a scythe and hourglass. Between the skeleton and the Medusa, a woman with a drum lies on the floor. Behind the bed a figure with "l'Academie" written above its blank face holds the hand of a blindfolded god who lifts a wreath above the dying man's head. One of the three gods pictured in the top right-hand corner holds a large leaf in the manner of a pen and in the other hand a mirror. In the bottom right-hand corner a harlequin with a puppet modelled upon himself turns the tap affixed to the head of a large, forlorn centaur which drips into the vase marked "Gouttes d'Hoffman"

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 30.4 x 40.8 cm

A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.

Publications du Progrès médical

Medical Heritage Library

Leçons cliniques sur les maladies mentales / par V. Magnan ; recueillies par les Drs Journiac & Sérieux.

Written throughout by the same hand as MS. 21. The text is on the recto only, notes and additions inserted on verso. The lectures are evidently those of Cullen.

266 folios 8vo. 19 × 12 cm. Modern binding.

Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

'Dr Southey's Lectures on Physic': lecture notes taken by an unnamed student. Topics covered include fevers, delirium, hydrocephalus, apoplexy, paralysis, epilepsy, chorea and cynanche.

Lecture notes of Dr Henry Herbert Southey's lectures

Lecons cliniques sur les maladies mentales; le delire chronique : Publications du Progres Medical.

Acute confusional insanity / by Conolly Norman.

An expiscation of acute delirium / by H.C. Wood.

On the treatment of certain cases of delirium with insomnia / by W. Morrant Baker.

The patient, a small bald man with a large moustache, cowers anxiously on the left, sitting in a hospital bed. In the centre the nurse, holding a temperature chart, gestures towards him while she turns to converse with the physician. The latter stands on the right, wearing a short white coat, pinstripe trousers and spats. In the pocket of his coat is a stethoscope. The floor is covered with shiny linoleum, indicated by reflection-lines

1 drawing : pen and ink over pencil, with white gouache ; sight 27.2 x 2.6 cm

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A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.

Leçons cliniques sur les maladies mentales / par V. Magnan ; recueillies par les Drs Journiac & Sérieux.

Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

Lecture notes of Dr Henry Herbert Southey's lectures

Lecons cliniques sur les maladies mentales; le delire chronique : Publications du Progres Medical.

Acute confusional insanity / by Conolly Norman.

An expiscation of acute delirium / by H.C. Wood.

On the treatment of certain cases of delirium with insomnia / by W. Morrant Baker.

A physician telling a nurse that a patient must be delirious because he wants to return to his wife. Pen and ink drawing by Michaelson, 1936.

On the pathology and treatment of delirium and coma : the Lumleian lectures for 1850 / by R.B. Todd.

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A dying man surrounded by fantastic and mythological figures. Coloured etching.

Leçons cliniques sur les maladies mentales / par V. Magnan ; recueillies par les Drs Journiac & Sérieux.

Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

Lecture notes of Dr Henry Herbert Southey's lectures

Lecons cliniques sur les maladies mentales; le delire chronique : Publications du Progres Medical.

Acute confusional insanity / by Conolly Norman.

An expiscation of acute delirium / by H.C. Wood.

On the treatment of certain cases of delirium with insomnia / by W. Morrant Baker.

A physician telling a nurse that a patient must be delirious because he wants to return to his wife. Pen and ink drawing by Michaelson, 1936.

On the pathology and treatment of delirium and coma : the Lumleian lectures for 1850 / by R.B. Todd.

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