M0007331: Illustration of two wooden vapour baths

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Two wooden vapour baths.

Photograph of a woodcut illustration from Glauber, Johann Rudolf, A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, London: Printed by Richard Coats, for Tho: Williams, at the signe of the Bible in Little-Britain, 1651. The illustration depicts two wooden vapour baths with text in Latin underneath. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 29th August 1935 (PHO 4236).

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 4236.

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.