M0007609: Illustration of medieval surgical instruments from Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung...

Previous title, replaced May 2020: E.J. Gurlt, Mediaeval instruments . . 1898

Photograph of an illustration from Gurlt, Ernst Julius, Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung..., Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1898, p.648. The illustration depicts a selection of surgical instruments of the medieval period. Related images: M0007608.

26 December 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.

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