Ms. Plut. 73.16, medication-education

[Jorge_Stolfi]

While searching for older templates for the VMS, I came across Ms. Plut. 73.16. [...] there are multiple depictions of patients lying down during treatment. This would be a new interpretation of the illustration on folio f82r.

Quite possibly.  However note that the green paint on that supine nymph is not original, and some (or even most) details of the drawing may be later additions/reinterpretations.  For example, I would guess that the nymph was originally naked, and some of what now seems to be bed cloth was in fact her left arm.

Furthermore, there is a strange pipeline that allows water (?) to run over a plant.

I suppose you refer to the last picture. As I see it (and the text seems to confirm), the blue is not a pipe, but a creek or river that receives at least part of its water from a hot spring sprouting from the side of a volcano and runs next to some buildings, maybe a town.  The three spouts take some water from the river to fill a large vessel, and the patient is soaking an oak branch in the water to sprinkle it on himself.  Sort of like people still do in Finnish and Russian saunas, I suppose...

All the best, --stolfi