M0006955: Operation on an abscess on the breast

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Operation on an abscess of the breast.

Photograph of a drawing depicting an operation on the breast. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Dessin [Drawing] 91, Operation d'un abces de la poitrine, in the exhibition catalogue.

1 May 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 17.5 x 12 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.