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Illness and Diseases


Famine, Plague, etc.



5 subcategories
Famine

FAMINE

Insanity

INSANITY

Leprosy

LEPROSY

Patients and Invalids

PATIENTS AND INVALIDS

Plague

PLAGUE

188 photos
Salve stick for ophtalmic treatment                    
with the seal of the oculist Q(uintus)                 
Valerius Sextus and his recipe:                        
Balm against falling eye sight.                        
From Metz or the Moselle region, France.
#10050432

Salve stick for ophtalmic treatment with the seal of the ocu...

Child lying on a bed.                                  
Lid of a sarcophagus                                   
Cat. 404                                               
Inv. 61 586
#10050442

Child lying on a bed. Lid of a sarcophagus...

Christ heals the paralytic. Relief                     
(3rd CE) on an early Christian sarcophagus             
from Via della Lungara, Rome.                          
Cat. 40
#11010544

Christ heals the paralytic. Relief (3rd CE) on an early Chr...

Portrait of an old man, his face a grimace of pain,    
with sunken eyes and bad teeth. From Palenque, Rio     
Usumacinta, Mexico-Guatemala. 600-900 CE               
Stucco (600-900 CE). Height 23 cm. Inv. SL XXXVIII     
Loan to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
#12010351

Portrait of an old man, his face a grimace of pain, with sunken eyes and bad...

"Sarcophagus of the Trees". Center: orante (praying    
woman), from l. to r.: miracles with the Virga (baton):
the son of the widow of Nain, the sanguinolent         
woman, multiplication of breads, healing of the blind, 
the paralytic. Marble, around 375 CE,Inv.FAN 92.00.498
#15010241

"Sarcophagus of the Trees". Center: orante (praying woman), from l. to r.: m...

The Centurion whose servant is cured.                  
Detail from a column of the ciborium.                  
Alabaster high-relief, probably Syriac
#15010260

The Centurion whose servant is cured. Detail from a column of...

The Healing of the paralytic.                          
Detail from an ivory pyxis.                            
Huebsch Collection
#15010312

The Healing of the paralytic. Detail from an ivory pyx...

Paralytic walking away with his bed.                   
Detail from scenes of the life of Christ.              
Carved ivory pyxis
#15010316

Paralytic walking away with his bed. Detail from scenes of th...

The tenth plague of Egypt: the Israelites paint their  
doorposts with the blood of the Easter lamb, the angel 
slays the firstborn of the Egyptians. Verdun Altar, 51 
plaques in champsleve-technique,enamel on gilded copper
1181, for Prior Wernher of Klosterneuburg, Austria
#15010521

The tenth plague of Egypt: the Israelites paint their doorposts with the blood...

A man suffering from palsy adores                      
Christ and is healed.                                  
Leopoldikrypta, 2nd window
#15010544

A man suffering from palsy adores Christ and is healed....

Christ heals a blind-born youth.                       
Leopoldikrypta, 2nd window.
#15010545

Christ heals a blind-born youth. Leopoldikrypta, 2nd wind...

Healing of the Leper. From the MS                      
"The Four Gospels" from Mount                          
Athos Monastery, Iberon, Greece                        
(2nd half 12th)
#15020117

Healing of the Leper. From the MS "The Four Gospels" from...