M0007415: Illustration of a cataract operation from Ophthalmodouleia

Date:
6 September 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/63/70
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M0007415: Illustration of a cataract operation from <i>Ophthalmodouleia</i>. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Operation for Cataract.

Description

Photograph of a woodcut illustration from Bartisch, George: Ophthalmodouleia, 1583. The illustraton depicts a cataract operation being carried out with caption in German above. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 17th October 1935 (PHO 5452). Related images: M0007416, M0007422, M0007423, M0007424, M0007425, M0007426, L0020597

Publication/Creation

6 September 1940

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5452.

Notes

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 2020.

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