M0018355: Illustration oshowing amputation and cauterization of the breast, 1741

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Amputation and cauterization of the breast.

Plate 37 from Scultetus, Johannes: Armamentarium chirurgicum, olim auctum triginta novem tabulis, Amstelaedami : Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1741

November 1960

1 photograph sheet film negative; 12 x 16.5 cm/photographic print; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/47570.v2

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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