Four vignettes demonstrating different cauterisation points on naked human bodies. Watercolour after a twelfth century manuscript.

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Four vignettes demonstrating different cauterisation points on naked human bodies. Watercolour after a twelfth century manuscript. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The cauterisation points illustrated in this painting are to cure ailments including: toothache, tertian fever, dropsy, quaternary fever, kidney disease, pain in hips, sciatica and quotidian fever

See further: R. Herrlinger, History of medical illustration, Munich 1970, pp. 31-32

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1 painting : watercolour, with gold paint and gouache ; image 20.4 x 15 cm

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Each vignette has accompanying text

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Wellcome Collection 22284i

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The original is: MS British Museum Sloane MS 1975, fol. XCIII

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