About This Item
Title
Doctor, students, and apprentice in the apothecary
Subject
Teaching
Education, Pharmacy
Students, Pharmacy
Pharmacists' Aides
Pharmacies
Drug Compounding
Drug Packaging
Incunabula
Book Illustrations
Description
Woodcut printed by Johann Grüninger, artist unknown.
Doctor in the pharmacy with two students and an apprentice who is working with a mortar and pestle.--Cf. Brunschwig, Hieronmyus. Buch der Cirurgia des Hieronmyus Brunschwig. Munich: Druck und Verlag, 1911. Afterword by Gustav Klein.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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_1500.18v
Temporal Coverage
History, Medieval
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
14 x 14 cm
Citation
“Doctor, students, and apprentice in the apothecary,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/243.