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Medicine, Medieval

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Images about Medicine, Medieval

2 images from works
  • Caricatural Mediaeval / Renaissance medical practitioners.
  • M0004717: A physician giving a lecture to five students, taken from Nicaise: <i>'La Grande Chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac </i> (1890)

Works from the collections

209 works

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    M0004714: Image of a knight applying a topical medication to a royal patient.

    | Date: 25 August 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/38/10
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    This boke doth create all of the beste waters artyfycialles : and the vertues and properties of the same, moche profytable for the poore sycke, set forth, by syr Roger Becon Freere.

    Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294 | Date: [1550], [©1550]
    • Books

    Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar.

    Lev, Efraim. | Date: 2008
    • Books

    Medicina per a un nou regne : el paper de la medicina i els seus practicants en la construcció del Regne de València (S. XIII) / Carmel Ferragud.

    Ferragud, Carmel. | Date: 2009
    • Books

    The key to medicine and a guide for students = Miftāḥ al-ṭibb wa-minhāj al-ṭullāb / Abū al-Faraj ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Hindū ; translated by Aida Tibi ; reviewed by Emilie Savage-Smith.

    Ibn Hindū, ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, -1029 or 1030. | Date: [2010], ©2010
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