The College Suspended: Illustrations of the Suspension of the College in the Adventures of Baron Munchausen

A satirical account of the raising of the Royal College of Physicians and its suspension from a balloon for three months is included among Baron Munchausen's later surprising adventures. Portrayals by artists of this flight of fancy involving the College are not widely known. Three pictorial re...

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Autor principal: Gibbs, Denis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1997
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Medical History
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5421038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9192340
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spelling pubmed-54210382019-01-22 The College Suspended: Illustrations of the Suspension of the College in the Adventures of Baron Munchausen Gibbs, Denis J R Coll Physicians Lond Medical History A satirical account of the raising of the Royal College of Physicians and its suspension from a balloon for three months is included among Baron Munchausen's later surprising adventures. Portrayals by artists of this flight of fancy involving the College are not widely known. Three pictorial representations of the raising of the College are shown and some of the historical context of the tall tale is given. Royal College of Physicians of London 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC5421038/ /pubmed/9192340 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1997 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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