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A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly..., 1787 Creator: Jacob Cats.

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A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), 1787. Additional Info: The images of a surgeon (often itinerant) making an incision in a patient's head in order to extract 'stones' (implying madness in the individual) do not represent an actual operation, but are allegorical scenes refering to the subduction of 'folly' (madness) from the body.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM25A37_418

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Droits gérés

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54,1Mo (4,6Mo) / 32,3cm x 42,0cm / 3812 x 4960 (300dpi)

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Europe portrait female women woman people male interior work job man men medical health healthcare medicine head historical sitting arts science art guy surgery occupation Netherlands Dutch color patient illness shelf shelves century drawing appointment doctor doctors profession inside ill precision charity concept seated two people extracting physician surgical instrument extraction watercolour old woman mental illness physicians dementia incision Colour elderly woman Indoors Medical Treatment 18th century Eighteenth Century history historic barber-surgeon charitable institution TGN trephination working watercolour portrait trepanning 1780s Heritage Art Low Countries research centre Jacob Cats Cats Jacob Jacob Cats II Wellcome Collection stone of folly Wellcome Research Institute Wellcome Trust Bartholomeus Maton Maton Bartholomeus Maton Bartholomaeus Bartholomaeus Maton