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A physician and a priest visit a patient, 1518

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A physician takes the pulse of a man sitting in an ornately carved chair as a priest stands before them, and two women stand to the right on either side of a bed

A physician and a priest visit a patient, 1518

In this woodcut, a rich man receives medical care from a physician while a priest looks on. This image appears in Consilio contra la pestilenza (1518), a book by Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), an influential physician, humanist philosopher, and Catholic priest, active during the early Italian Renaissance.

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