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Detail of a woodcut depicting Herophilus and Erasistratus
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Detail of a woodcut depicting Herophilus and Erasistratus

Unknown artist

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Wellcome Collection

Detail of a Woodcut depicting ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore "Herophilus and Erasistratus" The whole wood-cut (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis

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