"Twenty-three hundred years of medical costume"

"Twenty-three hundred years of medical costume"

A series of prints showing "medical costume". Inaccurate displays. The 17th century "doctor" is shown with a forceps which has not been invented yet. Roman physician from antiquity shown with a speculum. There features a single female presence, labelled as a nurse from the 16th century (anachronous term). Many 'physicians' shown with tools. Tools seem to be chosen based on what artist thought were popular procedures at the time (e.g., trepanation for 16th c)

1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone, color

Lavater, Warja, 1913-2007, artist

NLM
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101407172
Abbott; Source: Research; Research date: 20160517

Abbott Laboratories [1958?]