M0009833: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: book illustrations of mandrake and the healing of fractures

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Mandrake, male and female.

Photograph of a display at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum of two books open at illustrated pages. On the left is a 1519 herbal with an illustration of the male and female mandrake with a dog tied to the root of the plant. On the right is a book with two woodcuts depicting the healing of fractures. The photograph was taken in the 1940s and accessioned in January 1947 (accession number PHO 12885).

20 January 1947

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2021.

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