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The Quack Doctor: A Mirror of Some Health-Care

Silver mirror, Danish, design based on Jan Steen (?), The Quack Doctor; see etching in Roy Porter, Quacks (London, 2000), 195.
At center-stage is a mountebank flaunting a newly-pulled tooth.

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Bacchus Turn'd Doctor

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