Handbook of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum : founded by Henry S. Wellcome, 1913.

  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date:
[1914?]
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Credit: Handbook of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum : founded by Henry S. Wellcome, 1913. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HALL! OF STAT UCERY PROMINENT in this Hall are statues, casts and reproductions of the deities associated with the healing art in ancient and classical times. At the north end are grouped those of early civilisa- tions, including the gods of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians. Prominent among these is Ea, one of the earliest known deities connected with medicine, who, according to tradition, instructed the protohistoric peoples of the Euphrates valley in science and learning about 5000 B.C. On the left are Egyptian deities associated with healing, and, on the right, representations of the fathers of medicine of India and China, together with the Aztec medical genius, Ixtlilton. At the south end are the “deities of the early and classic periods of Hellenic culture. In front of the gallery balustrade on the north side, are the original barge flags of the Barber Surgeons Company of London, which was incorporated in 1461, and in the centre is a replica of the banner of the Company of Barber Surgeons. In front of the south end of the gallery are two of the barge streamers of the Society of Apothecaries of London,
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