Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.

  • Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.
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1830-1839
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16367i
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Métamorphoses du jour
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Broussais' system of bleeding with leeches was used extensively in the Parisian cholera epidemic of 1832

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1830-1839

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

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Il y a plénitude, nous vous saigenerons demain, en attendant continuez la diete. There's redundancy of blood and humours, we'll bleed you tomorrow, till then, very little food. J. Grandville ... Lettering repeated in French

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J.J. Grandville, Les métamorphoses du jour (Nouvelle éd., revue et complétée pour le texte), par Grandville, Paris: Garnier frères, 1869, ch. 65, pp. 434-442

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Wellcome Collection 16367i

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Entitled 'La méthode de Broussais'

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