Nerve operation on an animal (a horse?): four figures, including illustrations of instruments used in the operation. Etching, 1840/1870?.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1840/1860?]

1 print : etching ; sheet 18.1 x 26.4 cm

The nerve operation or neurotomy ; The tenaculum ; The nerve ; Operator's hand passing the needle under nerve ; The artery ; Artery ; The blunt pointed needle armed with thread to pass under the nerve ; The small hook or tenaculum ... for the same purpose ; Represents the proper knife for making the incision and dividing the nerve

Wellcome Collection 571897i