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

Date:
20 January 1947
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/86/67
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M0009833: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: book illustrations of mandrake and the healing of fractures. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

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

Description

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).

Publication/Creation

20 January 1947

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

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.

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