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"The
Medical Examination" (following a "Wasted Lesson in
Morals" ), c. 1670 by Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706) -
Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands.NOTE: A woman who wasted her morals is now confronted with
the diagnosis of pregnancy through the examination of her urine - doctors were
often called then "piss-prophets".
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