M0018440: Four silver medical instruments

Date:: February 1961

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/164/1

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - 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: M0018440-M0018551WT/D/1/20/1/164
        M0018440: Four silver medical instrumentsWT/D/1/20/1/164/1

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Silver medicine spoon, French?

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Silver tongue-scraper, marked 1827

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Silver Catheter

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Concealed bistoury, 1836

Description

Photograph of four silver medical instruments: a medicine spoon, possibly French; a tongue-scraper, marked 1827; a female telescopic catheter marked 1901; and a concealed bistoury, 1836. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at unknown points. The medicine spoon and tongue-scraper were given accession numbers A70559 and A119216, the catheter was accessioned in 1941 (accession number R561/1941) and the bistoury was accessioned in 1961 (accession number R2/1961). They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

February 1961

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for one of the items: R561/1941

Copyright note

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 2022.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.