Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare. D'abord saigner, ensuite purger, postérieurement seringuer. (Quelques personnes traduisient Deinde par le mot dinde, mais, c'est un latin de Cuisine)
Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare. D'abord saigner, ensuite purger, postérieurement seringuer. (Quelques personnes traduisient Deinde par le mot dinde, mais, c'est un latin de Cuisine)
Title (alt.):
Saignare primo, deinde purgare ext clysterium donare. First bleed, then drain after syringing. (Some people translate Deinde with dinde, but this is kitchen Latin). Caricature
Description:
This lithograph depicts the bleeding, purging and medication of a man. he print shows from left to right: King Louis-Philippe, a coachman (the French people?), Ferdinand Duc d'Orléans, and Marshal Lobau with his famous syringe. Louis-Philippe in 1833 bleeds a mail messenger (postillon) who has fallen off his horse, thereby saving his life. The King had learned the art of blood-letting in a hospital in his youth and always carried a bleeding-knife on him. Symbolically it is not the postillon, but rather the French nation which is being bled.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
Published in: La Caricature, December 5, 1833.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
