On leprosy.

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1987
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On leprosy. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, contains many rare and beautiful books, some of them very fragile. One of them, "Om Spedalskhed" (On Leprosy), by D.C. Danielssen and C.W. Boeck, published in Bergen, Norway, in 1847, contains a series of superb coloured plates of the clinical pathology of leprosy as seen in patients in the leper hospital, Bergen. This video presents a selection of these plates to demonstrate the potential of videotape for making rare and fragile works more widely available for study. 1 segment.

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UK : Wellcome Trust, 1987.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (6 min.) : sound, color

Duration

00:05:57

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Wellcome Trust; 2009

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In English.

Creator/production credits

Made by Wellcome Trust Film Unit. Introduced by Dr. Billie Williams; director and photgrapher, Douglas Fisher; editors Anthony Palmer and Robert Fisher; extracts read by Dick Graham.

Contents

Segment 1 Dr Williams introduces the film, saying that its purpose is to demonstrate the value of a particular primary source to students of the history of medicine. The primary source is the 1847 atlas 'On Leprosy', a rare book now owned by the Wellcome Library. Various colour plates from the book are seen, mostly of leprosy patients in Bergen. An abbreviated preface is read; this explains that the colours may have altered slightly over time. Then various extracts are read by Dick Graham as the colour plates are shown. End credits. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:57:10 Length: 00:05:57:10

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