M0001907: Two book illustrations depicting a reconstruction of Aklepian Temple building, Epidaurus; and the code of Hammurabi, circa 2000 BC

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

Two images on one negative: the first shows a reproduction of a reconstruction of Aklepian Temple building, Epidaurus; and the the second shows the code of Hammurabi, circa 2000 BC. 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

22 May 1931

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.