M0010177: African traditional healer cupping a patient

Previous title, replaced February 2021: African witch doctor cupping a patient, Wide World photograph

Reproduction of a photograph of a doctor cupping a patient, holding a knife, ready to cut the blisters, published in Aesculape, February 1938. A copy of the Aesculape reproduction was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1939 (accession number PHO 11537)

19 August 1947

1 photograph 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 2021.

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