Doctor Guillotine demonstrates a model of his device used to carry out death penalties in France. Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, 1738 – 1814. French physician, politician, freemason. Although not the inventor of the guillotine his name became an eponym for it. From La Ilustracion Iberica, published 1884.

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