M0008426: Surgical instruments, 15th-17th century.

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Surgical knife, lithotomy, syringes, 15th-17th century.

Display of surgical instruments from the Harmonic collection: 15th and 16th century surgical knives, 16th century lithotrite and early and late 17th century syringes. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R3676/1936, R3656/1936, R3655/1936, R3662/1936 and R1366/1936) but are not held by Wellcome Collection. For more details, see the accession records.

November 1941

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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