The Abbaye of Saint Antoine, the Sologne, France. Pilgrims suffering from ergotism (St Antony's fire) approaching the infirmary in which the relics and bones of the saint are preserved which were believed to cure the disease. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

  • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
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45910i
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1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 91.3 x 61 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/17/19

References note

Yubraj Sharma, Spiritual energetics of homoeopathic materia medica, Wembley: Academy of light, 2006, vol. 2, p. 637
Jess Bailey, 'Exhibiting health and difference at Henry Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum', Kritische Berichte, 2020, 48 (4): 30-43 (pp. 34-37)

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Wellcome Collection 45910i

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