A physician examining a pregnant woman's urine specimen in his library. Mezzotint.

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21771i
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London (St. Pauls Church Yard) : Carrington Bowles

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1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 19.8 x 13.6 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/45/9

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Le docteur nommé le Devin. Der Herr Doctor, Wahrsager. ... Lettering paraphrased and translated in "The evolution of urine analysis", 1911, as follows: "The consultation. My child, observe, from this I see / (So sure as I physician be) / Your swelling, pains and fretting, too, / Are signs of something wrong I trow; / But be assured you'll soon recover, / I promise, ere' nine months are over." Lettering continues: "Mamie! par cette urine je crois, qu'en bon docteur je vois, qu'enflure, point et vomissement, dans neuf mois passeront doucement." The lettering is repeated in german

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Reproduced in: The evolution of urine analysis. An historical sketch of the clinical examination of urine, London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co., 1911, facing p. 91

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Wellcome Collection 21771i

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