Wellcome Collection
A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly'(insanity). Engraving after D. Teniers.
David Teniers
Lettering: Feeling. Feeling of e'ry sense the best is thus indeed the most distrest no! man 'tis hell it self to feel instead of girl, the surgeons steel.
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