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. 2010 Aug 20;5:13. doi: 10.1186/1747-5341-5-13

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Woodcut from the Alchemical Work, Rosarium Philosophorum (1550) indicating one of the stages in the alchemical process: the Tomb. This resembles the strange union between the doctor and his patient in Kafka's A Country Doctor, which is at once a dying and being reborn.