M0001941: Reproduction of a book illustration depicting personal hygiene in the Minoan Palace of Knossos / M0001941EA: Reproduction of a book illustration depicting Dr. Caton's reconstruction of the scene [Asclepius, the Divine Physician] in the abaton or open-air sleeping-place at nightfall

Date:: June 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/18/23

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001912-M0002212WT/D/1/20/1/18
        M0001941: Reproduction of a book illustration depicting personal hygiene in the Minoan Palace of Knossos / M0001941EA: Reproduction of a book illustration depicting Dr. Caton's reconstruction of the scene [Asclepius, the Divine Physician] in the abaton or open-air sleeping-place at nightfallWT/D/1/20/1/18/23

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M0001941: Reproduction of a book illustration depicting personal hygiene in the Minoan Palace of Knossos / M0001941EA: Reproduction of a book illustration depicting Dr. Caton's reconstruction of the scene [Asclepius, the Divine Physician] in the abaton or open-air sleeping-place at nightfall. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Personal Hygiene in the Minoan Palace of Knossos.

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Reconstruction of Aesculapius in the Abaton

Description

Two images on one negative: the first is a book illustration depicting personal hygiene in the Minoan Palace of Knossos 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], plate XIV. The second is a halftone reproduction of a book illustration depicting "Dr. Caton's reconstruction of the scene [Asclepius, the Divine Physician] in the abaton or open-air sleeping-place at nightfall" in Haggard, Howard W.: Devils, drugs, and doctors : the story of the science of healing from medicine-man to doctor New York : Blue Ribbon Books, [1929], page 13. Related images: M0001921, M0001927

Please note that only the reproduction of Dr. Caton's reconstruction (M0001941EA) and a cropped version of the Minoan Palace (M0001941EB) have been digitised

Publication/Creation

June 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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