26-04-2017, 05:15 PM
I looked for group-of-four parallels also and a few years ago came across the legend that the medical school of Salerno was founded by four scholars from different cultures.
After that I tried to keep my eyes open for pictures of the doctors and discovered that everyone drew them differently, there wasn't any particular "template" (other than in manuscripts that are obvious copies). The urine beakers were perhaps the most common attribute, but there were also books, plants... a wide variety of items, and sometimes no items at all, just a man dressed in robes (with or without a name label).
After that I tried to keep my eyes open for pictures of the doctors and discovered that everyone drew them differently, there wasn't any particular "template" (other than in manuscripts that are obvious copies). The urine beakers were perhaps the most common attribute, but there were also books, plants... a wide variety of items, and sometimes no items at all, just a man dressed in robes (with or without a name label).