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Sophie Vasset

Destroying to Cure: Representation of Treatment in 18th Century Medical Treatises

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Figure 1 (reference p. 104-105) - The Scourge of Venus
Steven Blankaart, A physical dictionary: in which all the terms relating either to anatomy, chirurgery, pharmacy, or chymistry, are very accurately explain’d (London, 1685)
Figure 2 (reference p. 104-105) - The Martyrdom of Mercury
J. Sintelaer, Venereal Disease (London, 1709)
Figure 3 (reference p. 104-105) - Fumigation
Pierre Lalouette, Nouvelle méthode de traiter les maladies vénériennes par la fumigation (Paris, 1776)
Figure 4 (reference p. 105) - The Treatment for the Gout
Steven Blankaart, A physical dictionary: in which all the terms relating either to anatomy, chirurgery, pharmacy, or chymistry, are very accurately explaind (London, 1685)
Figure 5 (reference p. 105) - Ull, The Patients Soda Water Fountain (late 18th century)

Figure 6 (reference p. 106) - William Hogarth, A punishment inflicted on Samuel Gulliver by applying a Lilliputian fire engine to his Posteriors for his Urinal Profanation of the Royal Palace at Mildendo which was intended as a frontispiece to his first Volume but Omitted.(1726)

Figure 7 (reference p. 106) - Cupping
Frederick Dekkers, Exercitationes practicae circa medendi methodum (Leyden, 1700)
Figure 8 (reference p. 106) - Cautery
Frederick Dekkers, Exercitationes practicae circa medendi methodum (Leyden, 1700)
Figure 9 (reference p. 107) - Forceps
William Smellie,A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery; with a view to illustrate a treatise on subject, and collection of cases (London, 1761)
Figure 10 (reference p. 107) - Tools for the Operation of the Stone
Heister, A compendium of the practice of physic (1757)
Figure 11 (reference p. 107) -Tools for the Operation of the Stone, Plate II
Heister, A compendium of the practice of physic (1757)
Figure 12 (reference p. 107) - Amputation Tools
Heister, A compendium of the practice of physic (1757)
Figure 13 (reference p. 107) - Mastectomy
Heister, A compendium of the practice of physic (1757)
Figure 14 (reference p. 107) - Mastectomy, Plate II
Heister, A compendium of the practice of physic (1757)
Figure 15 (reference p. 108) - Amputation of the leg and arm
Heister, A compendium of the practice of physic (1757)
Figure 16 (reference p. 108) - Rowlandson, Thomas, Amputation (1793)
Figure 17 (reference p. 109) - A Tool Compressing the Nerves
James Moore, A method of preventing or diminishing pain in several operations of surgery (London, 1784)