M0017295: Surgeon amputating a man's leg with a priest in atttendance, 1559

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Surgeon amputating a man's leg, circa 1559.

Woodcut published in Ryff, Walther Hermann: Gross Chirurgei, oder volkommene Wundartznei…, Frankfort : Heirs of C. Egenolff, 1559-1562

March 1959

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/D/5677

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.

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