A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.

  • Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.
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A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 print : etching ; platemark 28.1 x 19.7 cm

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Costui che d'angue, e vipere pungenti, vuol far de l'anatomico facondo, sol mostra su' l'autentiche patenti, il privilegio d'ingannare il mondo

References note

David Gentilcore, Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy, Oxford 2006, pp. 42-43 (reproduced)

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Wellcome Collection 20538i

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