M0008373: Surgical instruments, 15th, 16th and 18th century

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Surgical instruments, 15th, 16th, 18th century.

Display of 15th, 16th and 18th century surgical instruments from the Harmonic collection, including forceps, bullet extractor, surgical clamp and bivalve dilator. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

November 1941

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 2020.

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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