M0001102: Vade mecum, c.1400

Date:
14 August 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/10/37
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M0001102: Vade mecum, c.1400. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Pages of a medieval physician's portable handbook from c.1400 showing a diagram decorated with a ring of urine flasks. Formerly in the possession of A. Dickson Wright M.R.C.S, but current whereabouts unknown. It is the same vade mecum discussed in Talbot, Charles Howell: “A Mediaeval Physician's Vade Mecum”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 16, no. 3, 1961, pp. 213–233. Related images: M0001093, M0001094EA, M0001094EB, M0001095, M0001096, M0001097, M0001098, M0001099, M0001100, M0001101, M0001102EA, M0001103, M0001104, M0001105.

Publication/Creation

14 August 1930

Physical description

2 photographs photographic print; 11.5 x 7.5 cm glass plate negative; 13 x 10 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 2020.

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