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

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001809-M0001911WT/D/1/20/1/17
        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 SalernoWT/D/1/20/1/17/86

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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. 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. 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.

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