M0010160: A medical man letting blood from a woman's arm

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Female patient with physicians performing a venesection

Reproduction of a rapid copy from an engraving by Nicholas Guerard's Moralites depicting a female patient with three male physicians, one of whom is performing a venesection. Published in Hollander, Eugen: Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin : mediko-kunsthistorisches Studie, Stuttgart : Enke, 1921.

13 August 1947

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.