Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes (Leiden, 1586)

Emblem 163

A doctor leaves the house of his purblind patient with his arms full of stolen goods; when she is cured, she is unable to pay the doctor's bill because he has 'robbed her blind'

Dolor è medicinaLatin

Pain from the medicine

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Notes and related emblems

Compare: Fae.113

Iconclass

31A235 sitting figure
31A2352 sitting on an elevation
31AA2512 arm stretched forward - AA - both arms or hands
31AA2516(+933) arm or hand held in front of the body - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something)
31A2621(+53) one leg in front of the other (+ sitting)
31A3191 blindfold
31A4111 blind, blindness
31A534 beard
31D14 adult man
31D15 adult woman
41A221:51II2 living-room, parlour, sitting-room❧Emptiness, Void
41A3211 open door
41A3311 open window
41A7212 armchair, seat
44G544 theft
49G0 'Medicina', allegorical representations ~ medicine; 'Medicina' (Ripa)
49G1 physician, doctor
49G23 healing of sick person
49G9 unprofessional or illegal practice, popular medicine
56BB1(+4) Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
85(LADY AND PHYSICIAN) fables (LADY AND PHYSICIAN)
86(DOLOR E MEDICINA) proverbs, sayings, etc. (DOLOR E MEDICINA)

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem163
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem163
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667