M0006274: Egyptian stele, from Dawson: Magician and Leech

Date:
09 May 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/52/55
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M0006274: Egyptian stele, from Dawson: <i>Magician and Leech</i>. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: W. R. Dawson, Magician and leech.

Description

Reproduction of an Egyptian stele (stone monument), published in Dawson, Warren R.:Magician and Leech: a study in the beginnings of medicine with special reference to ancient Egypt, London: Methuen, [1929], to illustrate of "the typical deformation resulting from infantile paralysis".

Publication/Creation

09 May 1939

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negative; 12.7 x 10.2 cm photographic print; 11.8 x 8.5 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 2020.

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