M0001906: Reproduction of votive reliefs in honour of Asklepios, the Greek the god of medicine / M0001906EB: Reproduction of a photograph of an Australian Aboriginal traditional healer with a magic healing crystal

Date:: 22 May 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/17/95

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001809-M0001911WT/D/1/20/1/17
        M0001906: Reproduction of votive reliefs in honour of Asklepios, the Greek the god of medicine / M0001906EB: Reproduction of a photograph of an Australian Aboriginal traditional healer with a magic healing crystalWT/D/1/20/1/17/95

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M0001906: Reproduction of votive reliefs in honour of Asklepios, the Greek the god of medicine / M0001906EB: Reproduction of a photograph of an Australian Aboriginal traditional healer with a magic healing crystal. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick.

Description

Two images on one negative: a photograph of votive reliefs in honour of Asklepios, the Greek god of medicine and a photograph of an Australian Aboriginal traditional healer with a magic healing crystal. Reproduced from 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]. Related images: M0001895, M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001899EA, M0001899EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001904, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472

Please be aware that only the photograph of Australian Aboriginal traditional healer has been digitised from this negative

Publication/Creation

22 May 1931

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate 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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