M0018439: Pocket surgical instrument case with instruments, 1707

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

From January 2026 Wellcome Collection will close at 18.00 on Thursdays.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

Photograph of a pocket surgical instrument case, silver mounted with tortoiseshell with lancets, forceps, spring and cross-action type, needle tongue depressor and director. The case is inscribed "MEIZO FRANCO DIRALA ANODE, 1707". It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1919 (accession number R11556).

M0018439: Pocket surgical instrument case with instruments, 1707

Licence and re-use