M0011153: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: three screw tourniquets

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Petit's screw tourniquet - described in 1718.

Three screw tourniquets mounted for display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's surgery exhibition, 1947-1948: a Bavarian one made of wood, c.1750 (left); a tourniquet devised by Signoroni in 1838 (centre); and one devised by Petit and first described by him in 1718. All three were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and an unknown point. The Petit screw tourniquet was given the accession number R19579. The items are not held by Wellcome Collection.

November 1949

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the Petit item (acc. number R19579 image 142)

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2021.

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