M0019413: Mikulicz-Radecki's gastroscope

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Gastroscope; Mikulicz-Radecki.

Photograph of Mikulicz-Radecki's gastroscope, an early example by Leiter, Vienna. Illumination is by means of a heated platinum loop. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1920 and accessioned in 1927 (accession number R27699)

May 1963

2 photographs sheet film negatives; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R27699

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.