M0007415: Illustration of a cataract operation from Ophthalmodouleia

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Operation for Cataract.

Photograph of a woodcut illustration from Bartisch, George: Ophthalmodouleia, 1583. The illustraton depicts a cataract operation being carried out with caption in German above. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 17th October 1935 (PHO 5452). Related images: M0007416, M0007422, M0007423, M0007424, M0007425, M0007426, L0020597

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5452.

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.