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Bubo Bubonic
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ BUBO      or
~ BUBOES    or
~ BUBOCELE  id+ | LUMP and GROIN |
            med> imply PAINFULL SWELLING OF
            GROIN LYMPH NODES and ELSWERE
            gr BOUBON = GROIN to denote
            med>  ENLARGED LYMPH NODES ARE
                  EASIEST TO NOTE IN THE GROIN
            biol> A GENUS OF LARGE OWLS
~ BUBONIC   PLAGUE IS NOTED FOR A TENDENCY
            TO CAUSE BUBO or BUBOES
  med> CAUSES OF BUBOES INCLUDE
       SYPHILIS
       CHANCROID
       LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM and
       BUBONIC PLAGUE CAUSED BY
       L BUBONICUS often TRANSMITTED BY
  FLEAS OF RODENTS
  art> Jacques L DAVID [#] 1748-1825 PAINTED
       NAPOLEON IN EGYPT INSPECTING
  VICTIMS OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE
  DAVID [#] WAS AN EXPONENT OF
  THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD WHERE
  MYTHOLOGICAL ALLEGORIES WERE REPLACED BY
  HEROIC or HISTORIC EVENTS
  hx> many experts suggest that
      as in POLITICS expressed by the
  FRENCH REVOLUTION in the ARTS
  there also was a shift away from
  PLURALISTIC FORMER MONARCHIES
  TOWARD NATIONAL STATES AND NATIONALISM
  relatedly the SYMBOLISM  ALLEGORIES  and
            ICONOGRAPHY IN ART SHIFTED AWAY FROM
  CLASSIC MYTHOLOGCY TOWARD A SHOW OF
  POLITICAL HEROES AND  COLLECTIVISM
  
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