Wellcome Collection
The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled France to escape the results of his mismanagement of the canal's financing, lies in bed as a physician takes his pulse to determine whether he is seriously ill. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
H.S. Robert
Lettering: On l'empressa alors de requérir un Docteur ... au bout de 8 jours ... qui affirma pendant 6 mois qu'il n'avait que quelques heures à vivre et n'irai<t> pas jusqu' à la fin de ses jours ....
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