M0017857: Illustration of Thomas Spencer Wells about to operate on an ovarian cyst, 19th century

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Spencer Wells about to operate an ovarian cyst.

Reproduction of a drawing by Thomas Spencer Wells to show his operating couch. First published by James Young Simpson in his "Lectures on Ovariotomy" and later in Wells, Thomas Spencer: On ovarian and uterine tumours : their diagnosis and treatment, London : J. & A. Churchill, 1882

April 1960

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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