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

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

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

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

Wellcome Collection 21555i

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