M0016572: An Alorca faience or majolica dish showing three medical scenes

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Photograph of a dish showing three scenes: a physician taking a pulse; a doctor examining a leg lesion; and a lady with a prescription. Raised above the dish are three receptacles said to be for ointment, plaster and tweezers., The photograph was sent to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in January 1958 by the owner of the dish with a view to selling it.

M0016572: An Alorca faience or majolica dish showing three medical scenes

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