M0019980: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition, "Medicine and Health in Shakespeare's England": Barber-Surgeon's bay

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Medicine and Health in Shakespeare's England.

Photograph of a section of the exhibition "Medicine and Health in Shakespeare's England" held by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964. The section concers barber-surgeons and displays a painting of John Banister delivering the Visceral Lecture, various heraldic banners and a reconstruction of the dissection table as illustrated in Helkiah Crooke's Microcosmographia, 1615.

January 1965

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 10 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds an archive file concerning the exhibition: WA/HMM/CO/Eau/25

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.