M0014430: St. Fillan's bronze bell

Previous title, replaced January 2022: St. Fillan's bronze bell.

Reproduction of a photograph of St. Fillan's bronze bell, placed on the head for the cure of insanity. From a photograph of the orginal in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. The print was received by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 6 January 1956.

December 1955

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 2022.

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