M0007422: Illustration of a man with pterygium symptoms from Ophthalmodouleia

Date:
6 September 1940
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Photograph of a woodcut illustration from Bartisch, George: Ophthalmodouleia, 1583. The illustration depicts a man with pterygium symptoms, a triangular or wedge-shaped growth of conjunctival tissue which has grown over the surface of the cornea, with captions above and below in German. Related images: M0007416, M0007415, M0007423, M0007424, M0007425, M0007426.

Publication/Creation

6 September 1940

Physical description

1 photograph
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.

Terms of use

This item is fragile. Please consult the digitised version. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item By Appointment.

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Location of original

Wellcome Library; GB.
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