M0007080: Manuscript illustration of physician examining flask, possibly of urine

Date:
30 July 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/60/68
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M0007080: Manuscript illustration of physician examining flask, possibly of urine. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A monk-physician examining a flask of urine

Description

Photograph of an illustration from Constantinus Africanus by Dioscorides, a 14th century manuscript, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna (Cod. 2315). The illustration possibly depicts a monk physician examining a flask, possibly urine, and female patient, with text in Latin. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 16th September 1935 (PHO 4647). Related images: M0007078, M0007079, M0007077.

Publication/Creation

30 July 1940

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm photographic print; 11 x 15.9 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 4647.

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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