M0001903EA: Reproduction of a sanitisation system at the ruins of Timgad, North Africa / M0001903EB: Reproduction of a photograph of a charm or amulet from Northern Queensland, Australia

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: black and white reproduction of a sanitisation system at the ruins of Timgad [a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria], North Africa, and a photograph of a charm or amulet from Northern Queensland, Australia. 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 XXVI. Related images: M0001895, M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001899EA, M0001899EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001904, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472

22 May 1931

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