M0007322: Illustration of a surgeon cauterising a wound

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A military surgeon operating.

Photograph of a woodcut illustration of a surgeon cauterising a wound reproduced from Hans von Gersdorf's Felbuch der Wundartanei. Strassburg, 1528, held by the British Museum (549.d.9).

6 September 1940

2 photographs sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm photographic print; 13.8 x 11.8 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.

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