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Old surgeon and healer

Pascoal Viana de Sousa Almeida Viegas Lopes Vilhete1970

Museum of Ethnology & Museum of Popular Art

Museum of Ethnology & Museum of Popular Art
Lisboa, Portugal

Painting on paperboard, depicting the activity, in 1900, of an "old surgeon and healer" (nr. 1), who collects and (visually) analyzes urine of patients in order to identify their respective diseases. In addition to the identification of the patients in the consultation (nrs. 2 to 16), the painting identifies the "helper or nurse" (nr. 20) who prepares medicines for the patients, the table where the glasses with urine collected from patients are placed (nr. 17), cupping-glasses (nr. 18) and the bowl for collecting blood with them (nr. 19), a friend of the surgeon (nr. 22) and a stranger passing by (nr. 23), according to the author's inscription in the upper right corner. Dated from October 5, 1970.

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  • Title: Old surgeon and healer
  • Creator: Pascoal Viana de Sousa Almeida Viegas Lopes Vilhete
  • Date Created: 1970
  • Location Created: São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Physical Dimensions: 65 cm x 50 cm
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: Collection: National Museum of Ethnology. Image: DGPC/ADF
  • Medium: Painting on paperboard
  • Catalog number: MNE: AY.991
Museum of Ethnology & Museum of Popular Art

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