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domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Title A dandified physician takes the lancet to a turkey, watched
Description
A dandified physician takes the lancet to a turkey, watched over by fashionable women. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
Iconographic Collections
Keywords: FASHION; Turkeys; Vaccination; satires; upper classes - france; physicians - costume; costume - france - 19th centur; smallpox - preventive inoculat
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_dandified_physician_takes_the_lancet_to_a_turkey,_watched_Wellcome_V0011696.jpg
The domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a large poultry bird, domestic form of the wild turkey. The English language name for this species results from an early misidentification of the bird with an unrelated species which was imported to Europe through the country of Turkey. |
