M0001899EA: Reproduction of a photograph depicting a medical centre at the Temple of Isis at Philae / M0001899EB: Reproduction of a illustration depicting Avicenna (980-1037), originally reproduced from a fifteenth century Hebrew translation of The Canon of Medicine

Date:: 22 May 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/17/88

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001809-M0001911WT/D/1/20/1/17
        M0001899EA: Reproduction of a photograph depicting a medical centre at the Temple of Isis at Philae / M0001899EB: Reproduction of a illustration depicting Avicenna (980-1037), originally reproduced from a fifteenth century Hebrew translation of The Canon of MedicineWT/D/1/20/1/17/88

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M0001899EA: Reproduction of a photograph depicting a medical centre at the Temple of Isis at Philae / M0001899EB: Reproduction of a illustration depicting Avicenna (980-1037), originally reproduced from a fifteenth century Hebrew translation of The Canon of Medicine. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

Description

Two images on one negative: a black and white reproduction of a photograph depicting a medical centre at the Temple of Isis at Philae, Egypt (top), and a black and white reproduction of a illustration depicting Avicenna (980-1037), originally reproduced from a fifteenth century Hebrew translation of The Canon of Medicine (bottom). 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], plate XI. Related images: M0001895, M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001904, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472

Publication/Creation

22 May 1931

Physical description

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

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

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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