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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1537082, member: 2844&quot;]I agree. It looked very Dutch to me (sorry kyra), the way the scene is positioned, and especially the woman&#039;s hat, and I remembered seeing it before.</p><p>This one could be 19th century, those Dutch paintings were copied a lot at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were professional surgeons in the Low Countries in those days, but the patient had to be pretty desparate to go to one.</p><p>A Low Countries surgeon, &#039;chirurgijn&#039;, had less medical training than a doctor. A doctor worked with herbal and other remedies, a chirurgijn set bones and did any cutting and stitching that was deemed necessary.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>One of my Frisian ancestors was a chirurgijn.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie17" alt=":bag:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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