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Figure 4. (a) Jacob van Maerlant:
Der Naturen Bloeme
, Flanders c.1350 (KB, KA 16,
Folio 69r, National Library of the Netherlands). b. Hans Holbein:
The Dance of Death
,
Lyons 1538, XXVI. “The Physician” (woodcut) (repr. from Holländer, 1903, p. 283). (c)
Urine distillation apparatus from Leonardt Thurneisser (
Aurora Thesaurusque Philoso-
phorum Paracelsi
, Basel 1577). (d) Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569), detail from
a satirical drawing of medicine (repr. from Holländer 1905, p. 52. (e) Thomas Murner
:
Narrenbeschwörung
(1512), “Der Kälberarzt” (The calf doctor) (repr. from Holländer
1905, p. 89). (f) Frontispiece of Johan Van Dueren:
De Ontdekking der Bedriegeryen
Vande gemeene Pis-Besienders
, Amsterdam 1688. (g) Peter Candid: “Allegory of Medi-
cine”, 1619-22, fresco in the town hall of Augsburg.