“A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed“

A line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.

 

Description: The shelves in the surgery are full of bottles labelled: “modestie”, “honnestete”, humilite”, “obeissance” etc., and many more ‘good ‘ qualities. A practitioner pours a liquid entitled: “sagesse” into the mouth of a patient who sits on a commode excreting fools. The other practitioner holds another patient on a wooden stretcher while his head is placed in a furnace from which all follies, vices and fantasies are being expelled.

Found on the Wellcome Collection.

via Messy Nessy Chic

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