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FIG. 16. "THE LOVESICK MAIDEN."
(After the painting by Jan Steen, 1626-1679.)
One of this famous Dutch artist's objects, in painting the scene here
represented, was to satirize the practice, which was very prevalent among
certain physicians of that period, of pretending to diagnose all sorts of
maladies from the mere naked-eye inspection of his patient's urine.
(Courtesy of Dr. Eugen Hollander, author of Die Medizin in der klassischen Malerei, Stuttgart, 1903.)
