Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Pencil drawing.
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Physical description
1 drawing : pencil, with brown wash
Lettering
Lettering on reverse reads: "B[ritish] M[useum] expertise: possibly copy of an engraving, hence hard technique, Flemish, 17th century."
Reference
Wellcome Collection 21249i
Type/Technique
Subjects
- Physician and patient
- Diagnosis
- Lovesickness
- Gratitude
- Pulse
- Beds
- CostumeGreeceHistoryTo 500
- Incense burners and containers
- Crowns
- Observation (Scientific method)
- Erasistratus, of Ceos, active 3rd century B.C.
- Antiochus I Soter, King of Syria, 324 B.C.-approximately 261 B.C.
- Seleucus I, Nicator, -281 B.C.
- Stratonice.
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