Woodland hospital
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Author(s):
- Tarrant, Margaret, 1888-1959, artist
- Contributor(s):
- Zwerdling, Michael, former owner Medici Society, publisher.
- Publication:
- London : The Medici Society Ltd., [between 1921 and 1950]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care Animals, Wild Child Forests Hospitals
- Genre(s):
- Postcard
- Abstract:
- This is a color illustrated postcard created by English illustrator and author, Margaret Tarrant. Beginning in 1921 she worked largely for the Medici Society. This postcard shows a woodland scene with elf children tending to various animals. On the left, a door labeled "Dispensary" opens from a hollow tree. A girl has opened the door to a line of animals waiting for care, including a hedgehog with a cane and scarf, a bird with a bandage around its head and a lizard. In the middle of the scene a boy listens to a rabbit's heart with a stethoscope. A girl and boy are wrapping a bandage around a bird's leg. Other animals in the scene include a mouse drinking from a bottle of medicine, a frog with a cane, a rabbit with a sling around its left leg, a squirrel with a white bandage safety pinned around its neck, a duck and two owls. The sign "Hospital" is hung between two trees.
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : 9 x 15 cm
- Provenance:
- Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
- Technique:
- color
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101746305 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101746305