M0019565: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Deutsch Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie, 1875

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Photograph of a letter dated 2 July 1875 sending him the Diploma of Honorary Membership of Deutsch Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie [German Society for Surgery]. It is one of a number of photographs accumulated by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of its exhibition held in 1927 to celebrate the centenary of Lister, in conjunction with The Royal Society, The British Universities Hospitals and Medical and Surgical Colleges.

M0019565: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Deutsch Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie, 1875

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