A physician reading a recipe instructs his assistant who is mixing with a pestle and mortar. Engraving after a twelfth century manuscript.

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A physician reading a recipe instructs his assistant who is mixing with a pestle and mortar. Engraving after a twelfth century manuscript. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 print : etching and aquatint, in brown ink ; image 10.8 x 7.7 cm

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A physician & his servant, from a M.S. of the 13th. centy. Bears number upper right : LV

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R. Herrlinger, History of medical illustration, Munich 1970, p. 78

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Wellcome Collection 21555i

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After: MS British Museum Sloane MS 1975, beginning with 'Libri IV medicinae Ypocratis Platonis Apoliensis Urbis de diversis herbis', third quarter of the 12th century

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