M0008147: Surgical instruments from Nigeria and the Congo

Date:
October 1941
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/70/79
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M0008147: Surgical instruments from Nigeria and the Congo. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: African surgical instruments, knives, lancets.

Description

Display of surgical knives and lancets from Nigeria and what was at the time the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). The instruments were acquired and put on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, but are not held by Wellcome Collection. The photograph of display was accessioned in 1935 (accession number PHO 3876).

Publication/Creation

October 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

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 note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Terms of use

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

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