M0015879: Three amputation knives: catlin, amuptation knife and Lefay's falciform amputation knife, all 18th century

Date:
1957
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WT/D/1/20/1/142/25
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M0015879: Three amputation knives: catlin, amuptation knife and Lefay's falciform amputation knife, all 18th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Large curved amputation knife.
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Acatlin; amputation knife, with maker's mark; a trefoil.
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Large curved amputation knife.

Description

Photograph of three amputation knives. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R4297/1936 (catlin ), R4276/1936 (knife) and R4328/1936 (falciform knife)). They are not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0015880

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: accession number R4297/1936, accession number R4276/1936 and accession number R4328/1936

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2021.

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