Gallery›Wellcome Collection›An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concotion. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concotion. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
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An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concotion. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.

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Lettering: Le medecin clair-voyant. Peint en 1773 le Prince peintre du Roi, et conseiller en son Académie Royale. Gravé en 1775 par Helman graveur de Mgr. le Duc de Chartes. ...

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