Name his most famous patient.
Clue:
The medicinal plant shares its name with a character in Sandman comics.
I thought the sad eyes and characteristic goatee were enough to give it away. Apparently not.
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Answer:
Quoting Pooch – “That’s Dr. Paul Gachet who took care of painter Vincent Van Gogh during his final days. Van Gogh famously painted a portrait of the doctor holding a bouquet of foxgloves, which were used to treat heart ailments.”
And here are the two identical portraits of Dr Gachet
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That’s Dr. Gachet who took care of painter Vincent Van Gogh during his final days. Van Gogh famously painted a portrait of the doctor holding a bouquet of foxgloves, which were used to treat heart ailments.
Man in the picture is Dr. Paul Gachet, who treated Vincent Van Gogh in the latter’s last days. The plant is Foxglove, and the connection is that Van Gogh made a portrait of Gachet with the latter leaning on a desk, holding a twig of Foxglove.
Gachet / Van Gogh