M0002010: Photograph of a 16th century 'luxation' traction table from monastery of Pennabilli, taken at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Scamnum of Hippocrates from monastery of Pennabilli

Photograph showing 3/4 side view "almost dead on" of a sixteenth century 'luxation' traction table, also referred to as the scamnum or Hippocratic bench, obtained from a monastery of Pennabilli, Italy, in 1923, where was it was used as a refectory table. The photograph is recorded as taken by "SH" in the M Series register, and shows the table in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

June 1931

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 2020.

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