- adustion
- alchemy
- Anthropophagy
- Antiochus
- Arthémidore
- Atlas
- bestiaire
- broadsheet
- cabinet of curiosities
- catastrophe
- cerebral melancholy
- crocodile
- Cupid
- delusion
- drugs
- erotic melancholy
- extraordinary cures
- extraordinary patients
- folie des grandeurs
- folly
- glass
- hallucinations
- headless
- hospital
- humours
- hypochondria
- imagination
- love
- lovesickness
- lycanthropy
- mania
- melancholia adusta
- melancholy
- metamorphosis
- museum
- music
- music therapy
- natural history
- over-study
- profession
- pulse
- religious melancholy
- remarkable cure
- Saturn
- snake
- Stratonice
- transformation
- vase
- Venus
- werewolf
La Maladie d'Antiochus
Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises whenever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).
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