M0018819: Human frontal bone with an inflammatory lesion, Neolithic

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Inflammatory lesion of the skull.

Photograph of the Neolithic frontal bone of a youth showing osteitis or osteomyelitis, from Solutre, Saone-et-Loire, France. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and given accession number A272134. It was included in the Museum's Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness, 1951. Related images: M0018819EA

October 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the exhibition catalogue

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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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