Anglo-Saxon surgery. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

  • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
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538271i
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Description

Apparently shows the use of the cautery iron

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 91.7 x 61.4 cm

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/17/30

References note

Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum organized by Henry S. Wellcome, London 1913, p. 21 no. 43 ("Anglo-Saxon surgery. The actual cautery played a very important part in medicine in the Anglo-Saxon period")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 538271i

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