M0015930: Five lancets and engraved case showing blood letting scene, 18th century

Date:: 1957

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/142/74

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0015850-M0015957WT/D/1/20/1/142
        M0015930: Five lancets and engraved case showing blood letting scene, 18th centuryWT/D/1/20/1/142/74

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M0015930: Five lancets and engraved case showing blood letting scene, 18th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: 5 Lancets and engraved case showing blood letting scene.

Description

Photograph of the blades of five English lancets and an engraved case showing a blood letting scene. The items were presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1919 (accession number R8838). They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: accession number R3714/1936 and R3707/1936 and R8838

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Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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