M0001465: Reproduction of an illustration depicting Sushruta, or Susruta, an ancient Indian physician sitting cross-legged with an Indian potentate (rular or monarch) possibly discussing his theory of malarial infection, which he ascribed to bites by mosquitoes

Date:
16 December 1930
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WT/D/1/20/1/13/68
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M0001465: Reproduction of an illustration depicting Sushruta, or Susruta, an ancient Indian physician sitting cross-legged with an Indian potentate (rular or monarch) possibly discussing his theory of malarial infection, which he ascribed to bites by mosquitoes. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Susruta explains his theory to an Indian potentate.

Description

Black and white reproduction of an illustration depicting Sushruta, or Susruta, an ancient Indian physician sitting cross-legged with an Indian potentate (rular or monarch) possibly discussing his theory of malarial infection, which he ascribed to bites by mosquites. The original illustration was exhibited by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in their exhibition Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930 in 1930, and is listed as exhibit no. 886 in the souvenir catalogue.

Publication/Creation

16 December 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item was exhibited in

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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