Sick man in bed attended by two figures

Religion and Medicine

Patients

Physicians

Beds

Toilet Facilities

Incunabula

Book Illustrations

Woodcut printed by Johann Grüninger, artist unknown.

Sick man lying in bed holding a stick, with chamber pot(?) on ground below. At the foot of the bed stand two figures, possibly a doctor holding a vessel of ointment(?) and a bearded monk(?) with prayer beads. Image appears to be a composite.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Original image in: Brunschwig, Hieronymus, approximately 1450-approximately 1512. Pestbuch (Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 19 Aug. 1500). ZDd 15 1500 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Drawing heavily on Heinrich Steinhowel’s 1473 treatise on the plague, Brunschwig’s Pestbuch describes the origin of the plague, its communication, symptoms, prophylaxis and treatment. A surgeon, Brunschwig had witnessed the plague of 1473. Many of the 23 woodcut illustrations are only loosely related to the text, consist of composites, and reappear throughout the text and in other works printed by Gruninger.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

1500

Grüninger, Johann, -1532?

ger

StillImage

ZDd_15_1500.6r

History, Medieval

1 print : woodcut

9x17 cm