Mattei's electro-homeopathic treatments, Bologna, Italy, 1871-1885 (medicine chest, catalogue description)

secondary literature · 1878

type:secondary literature

year:1878

citation:Wellcome Images (catalogue description), object photograph and description reproduced via Wikimedia Commons, object title Mattei's electro-homeopathic treatments, Bologna, Italy, 1871-1885. Wellcome Images L0057834; catalogue text mirrored at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mattei%27s_electro-homeopathic_treatments,_Bologna,_Italy,_187_Wellcome_L0057834.jpg. The underlying medicine chest is now catalogued at the Science Museum Group Collection (object A600342), collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co130731, whose object description reproduces the same text.

LINK

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SUMMARY

Institutional catalogue description (originally Wellcome Images, the medical-object photography arm of the Wellcome Collection; the physical chest itself was later transferred to the Science Museum Group's medical collection, where the same descriptive text is reproduced) for a surviving Mattei medicine chest, Bologna, 1871-1885. The image itself is licensed CC BY 4.0 and is NOT used as a Media asset in this bundle (the autonomous routine may not author a `licensed` rights tag); this Source is cited for its descriptive text only, fetched directly via curl (the page's own JSON-LD/config content trips this project's automated verify-quotes fetcher's generic 'cloudflare'/'captcha' string-match heuristic as a false positive -- the fetched page is a normal, non-challenged Wikimedia Commons file page containing routine MediaWiki captcha-for-editing configuration text and an unrelated cdnjs.cloudflare.com script tag -- so content from this record is paraphrased in the published bundle rather than placed in a verify-quotes block). The text names the color-only bottle labels (Red, Green, White, Yellow, Blue), the vial 'Canceroso 5' and its claimed uses, the remedies' adoption at St Saviour's Cancer Hospital, London, from 1873, and states the system was dismissed by the medical profession as quackery in its own time and that by the 1930s Mattei's ideas were generally dismissed.

NOTES

Institutional catalogue description establishing the medicine chest’s contents, the “Canceroso 5” cancer-named remedy, the London hospital adoption, and the contemporaneous and 1930s professional assessment of the system as quackery. Quoted verbatim in research notes only; the published bundle paraphrases this source’s descriptive text (see summary) because the automated verify-quotes fetcher false-positives on this domain.

Holding institution record: Science Museum Group, object co130731 (the Commons file above mirrors the Wellcome Images catalogue description of the same object).