M0001895: Reproduction of a photograph depicting city sanitation in Minoan Crete circa 1900BC / M0001895EB: Reproduction of "Patients of a thirteenth century doctor", drawings from the Cambridge manuscript of Roger of Salerno

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick.

Two images on one negative. The first is a black and white reproduction of a photograph depicting city sanitation in Minoan Crete circa 1900BC. The second is a reproduction of "Patients of a thirteenth century doctor", drawings from the Cambridge manuscript of Roger of Salerno, depicting the treatment of an infected and decayed tooth; heat treatment for a skin disease; and a patient presenting a severe rash, possibly leprosy. Both a reproduced in Stubbs, S. G. Blaxland: Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine, London: S. Low, Marston & co., ltd, [1931], plate XXXVI. Related images: M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001899EA, M0001899EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472, L0003876

22 May 1931

3 photographs, 2 on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm sheet negative; 10 x 12.5 cm photographic print; 9.8 x 12.4 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.