The Doctor
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Doctor
Scripture Reference:
- Matthew 8 (further images / scripture text)
Description: The doctor, wearing a house robe, sits in his study at a table with an opened illustrated botany book. A patient, wearing a hat, stands in front of him and pulls a flask from a wicker basket. Books line the shelves; flasks and jars are on top of the bookcases. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing this emblem and for creating the motto and poem that follow. Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Matthew 8:16-17.
Motto:
God is the medicine
For hell’s deadly venom.
Poem:
If life is powerless and sick,
One takes a nasty or bitter tonic,
So that the body might heal again:
Why not then for a short time
Accept some bitterness,
To be eternally healthy?
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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