M0017187: Pocket set of twelve surgical instruments, 16th century

Date:
January 1959
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/154/44
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M0017187: Pocket set of twelve surgical instruments, 16th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Pocket set of instruments, set of twelve, 16th century.

Description

Photograph of a 16th century pocket set of surgical instruments mounted for display by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Six instruments are on display and other six are in the case. The set was acquired by the Musuem at an unknown point and accessioned in 1917 (accession number R13669). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

January 1959

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 the item: R13669

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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 2022.

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

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