Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1496, oiiij recto, leaf height 26.8 cm, Inc.3.J.1.2[3559].

This woodcut is set at the beginning of the chapter on diseases. It shows a physician visiting a patient at his bedside, examining his urine. A physician would also issue a prescription for medicine, which was fulfilled by an apothecary, who is shown here in front of a row of jars containing medicinal ingredients and consulting a ledger or a recipe. These are the tasks by which a physician was commonly depicted.