M0001248: Reproduction of Indian print of "Charaka. Ca. 500 B.C. Hindu physician"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Indian print of Dhanwantari, The Vedic father of Medicine, oval

Black and white reproduction of an Indian physician captioned: Charaka. Ca. 500 B.C. Hindu physician, who was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Indian Subcontinent. Charaka [Caraka] is depicted seated and holding a vessel. The print is possibly photographed in situ on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

19 August 1930

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.

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