M0010177: African traditional healer cupping a patient

Date:: 19 August 1947

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/89/77

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0010096-M0010213WT/D/1/20/1/89
        M0010177: African traditional healer cupping a patientWT/D/1/20/1/89/77

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Previous title, replaced February 2021: African witch doctor cupping a patient, Wide World photograph

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a doctor cupping a patient, holding a knife, ready to cut the blisters, published in Aesculape, February 1938. A copy of the Aesculape reproduction was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1939 (accession number PHO 11537)

Publication/Creation

19 August 1947

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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