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A Doctor Casting the Water

Description

Mid 17th-century oil painting on wood panel; a doctor's surgery with a doctor examining a urine sample; indistinct signature and date; on the doctor's book the date 166- can be made out. Purchased with funds provided by friends of Anne Trinsey in her memory.

Object number

STRST : SBT 1994-17
Maker

Dyck, Osias
Date

c. 1660
Technique

painted
Material

oil paint wood

Measurements
Width

305 mm
Height

343 mm

Marks & inscriptions

: : : : Osias Dyck 16--,

Credit line

CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Part of Exhibition

Method in the Madness

Method in the Madness: Understanding Ourselves Then & Now explores how the body, mind and disease were interpreted in the lifetime of John Hall (1575-1635), the physician who occupied this house in the early 1600s.

Shakespeare Connected - ‘The natural gates and alleys of the body’ (Hamlet, 1.5.67): Physicality, Hygiene and Bodily Waste in Shakespeare’s World

A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Peter J Smith, Nottingham Trent University.

John Hall, A Stratford Physician: His Practice and Patients

Curated by Christopher Booth, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham

Boils, Plague Sores and Embossed Carbunkles

Health and Wellbeing in Shakespeare's Time

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A Doctor Casting the Water

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Part of Exhibition