M0017210: The first dressing on the battle-field, 1869

Previous title, replaced March 2022: The first dressing on the battle-field.

Illustration published in Esmarch, Friedrich von: The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : prize essay, London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878

February 1959

1 photograph sheet film 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 2022.

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