M0001895: Reproduction of a photograph depicting city sanitation in Minoan Crete circa 1900BC / M0001895EB: Reproduction of "Patients of a thirteenth century doctor", drawings from the Cambridge manuscript of Roger of Salerno
- Date:
- 22 May 1931
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/17/86
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick.
Description
Two images on one negative. The first is a black and white reproduction of a photograph depicting city sanitation in Minoan Crete circa 1900BC. The second is a reproduction of "Patients of a thirteenth century doctor", drawings from the Cambridge manuscript of Roger of Salerno, depicting the treatment of an infected and decayed tooth; heat treatment for a skin disease; and a patient presenting a severe rash, possibly leprosy. Both a reproduced in Stubbs, S. G. Blaxland: Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine, London: S. Low, Marston & co., ltd, [1931], plate XXXVI. Related images: M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001899EA, M0001899EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472, L0003876
Publication/Creation
22 May 1931
Physical description
3 photographs, 2 on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm sheet negative; 10 x 12.5 cm photographic print; 9.8 x 12.4 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.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request