About This Item
Title
A pharmaceutical lesson
Subject
Teaching
Education, Pharmacy
Students, Pharmacy
Pharmacies
Drug Packaging
Books
Incunabula
Book Illustrations
Description
Woodcut printed by Johann Grüninger, artist unknown.
Interior view of a pharmacy, showing the master, standing and pointing to shelves of apothecary jars, instructing the novice who is sitting at a table with an open book.--Cf. NLM catalog.
Title from NLM catalog.
Source
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.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1500
Contributor
Grüninger, Johann, -1532?
Language
ger
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZDd_15_1500.16v
Temporal Coverage
History, Medieval
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
17 x 14 cm
Citation
“A pharmaceutical lesson,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 4, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/242.