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Subject

Surgical Instruments.

Images

  • Amputation set, circa 1750.
  • M0010757: Instruments for operating on varicose veins.
  • Plate illustrating the use of John Weiss’s lythontruptor instruments.
  • M0017517: Illustration of a cutler, 1818

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0000357: Greco-Roman cupping vessels and Roman bronze rectal speculum

    | Date: 1929 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/4/70
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0010667: Instruments used in a lithotomy

    | Date: 04 June 1948 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/94/41
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0000358: Greco-Roman bronze bladder sound, bronze speculum and other instruments

    | Date: 1929 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/4/71
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Melville, Capt. William Hilton-Simpson (1881-1938)

    Melville, Capt. William Hilton-Simpson, 1881-1938. | Date: c.1925 | Reference: MS.8089
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Lezzioni di chirurgia: withTrasmondi, Antonio (1771-1838)

    Sisco, Giuseppe, 1748-1830. | Date: 1834 | Reference: MS.4620
    Part of: Sisco, Giuseppe (1748-1830)

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