Never trust a doctor : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Never trust a doctor / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Medieval carvings on box-pews, Fawsley church, Northamptonshire. My guess, based on the humourous approach to the iconography, is fifteenth century, but I'm ready to be corrected...The bear-like creature is probably an ape. He is examining urine in the flask: a common symbol of the mediaeval doctor. No doubt, he is diagnosing the illness of the woman who kneels before him, since great importance was placed on the colour and smell of urine by the general practitioners (or mountebanks) of the day.There is a direct connection, probably, with the fool beneath. You might as well consult a fool with his coxcomb pecking at some (no doubt noxious) herb, as consult a doctor. Perhaps this image is still relevant in the days of the modern NHS?The fact that the ape is sitting on a flask of his own is a detail fairly unique to this carving. Is he going to self-diagnose, or is he merely going to substitute his own diseased urine for the woman's? |
| 撮影日 | 2009-05-30 12:56:55 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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| 撮影地 | England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | E8700 , NIKON |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/120) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.3 |