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Description: | A medical practitioner is diagnosing from a woman's urine with the aid of a book by Galen, a second century AD philosopher and physician whose works were the basis for medicine in the fifteenth century and before. Galen believed that medicine is the knowledge of things healthful, unhealthful and natural. He advocated that substances should be applied that were opposite in quality to the sickness being cured. Studying urine in order to identify the ailment is the ancient art of uroscopy. This work was at one time attributed to Richard Brakenburg. | Subjects: | figure; interior; still life; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Æ Previously attributed to Brakenburg, Richard (Dutch painter, 1650-1702) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8324... | Go to resource |
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