Plaster cast of moralistic Victorian statue showing doctor or pharmacist attending to pauper's body
‘The Charity Patient’ plaster statue shows a doctor or a pharmacist attending to a mother, dressed in rags, with a small baby. The doctor examines the baby while grinding up a treatment in a pestle and mortar. Medical treatment was not free, so the poor had to rely on charitable provision or workhouse infirmaries.
Details
- Category:
- Nursing & Hospital Furnishings
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A631054
- Materials:
- whole, plaster, cream-coloured
- Measurements:
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overall: 545 mm x 320 mm x 190 mm,
Parts
Scroll-work fragments from statue showing a doctor treating a pauper
- Materials:
- whole, plaster, cream-coloured
- Object Number:
- A631054/2
- type:
- fragment and component - object