M0006224: Making cod liver oil, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

Date:
21 April 1939
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WT/D/1/20/1/52/7
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M0006224: Making cod liver oil, from Peters: <i>Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy</i>. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2020: Cod liver oil.

Description

Photograph of a reproduction of an woodcut showing the manner of catching cod and preparing the oil. The reproduction is from Peters, Hermann: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy: with sketches of early medical practice (Chicago: Engelhard, 1889 [©1888]) p.76. The photograph of the reproduction was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1939 (accession number PHO 11455). Related images: M0000450, M0000451, M0000454, M0000455, M0000456, M0000457, M0000458, M0000459, M0000460, L0043948.

Publication/Creation

21 April 1939

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 2020.

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