M0003822: Reconstruction of a surgical operation in a late Stone Age culture

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Primitive Surgery among the Peruvian Incas, artist's reconstruction drawing

Reproduction of an artistic representation of a surgical operation on a woman's skull based on material and photographs from the region in Peru. Published as the frontispiece in Moodie, Roy L: Paleopathology: an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois press, 1923.

27 March 1934

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 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 2021.

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