M0001899EA: Reproduction of a photograph depicting a medical centre at the Temple of Isis at Philae / M0001899EB: Reproduction of a illustration depicting Avicenna (980-1037), originally reproduced from a fifteenth century Hebrew translation of The Canon of Medicine

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick

Two images on one negative: a black and white reproduction of a photograph depicting a medical centre at the Temple of Isis at Philae, Egypt (top), and a black and white reproduction of a illustration depicting Avicenna (980-1037), originally reproduced from a fifteenth century Hebrew translation of The Canon of Medicine (bottom). Reproduced from Stubbs, S. G. Blaxland: Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine, London: S. Low, Marston & co., ltd, [1931], plate XI. Related images: M0001895, M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001904, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472

22 May 1931

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.