M0007108: Illustration of Discorides 'Fathers of Medicine'

Date:
30 July 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/60/96
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M0007108: Illustration of Discorides 'Fathers of Medicine'. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Fathers of medicine, Discorides manuscript

Description

Reproduction of a page from an unidentified publication. It includes an engraving after an illustration in an unidentified 6th century manuscript by Discorides of the Greek 'Fathers of Medicine', with caption in Latin above. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 17th September 1935 (PHO 4695). Related images: M007107

Publication/Creation

30 July 1940

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 4695.

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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