M0005439: Man being cured after eating mortar from the Shrine of St. William, stained glass window, 1420

Date:
March 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/44/64
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M0005439: Man being cured after eating mortar from the Shrine of St. William, stained glass window, 1420. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Curing from Shrine of St. William, glass panel, 1420.

Description

Photograph of a stained glass window at York Minster depicting a man being cured of "the stone" after eating mortar from the Shrine of St William. The photograph was compiled by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee, for his Royal Society of Medicince lecture in 1938

Publication/Creation

March 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2021.

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