Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
Anglo-Saxon surgery. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
- Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
- Reference
- 538271i
- Pictures
- Online
Available online
Licence
Public Domain Mark
You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law.
Public Domain Mark (PDM) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Credit: Anglo-Saxon surgery. Oil painting by Ernest Board. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
Selected images from this work
About this work
Description
Apparently shows the use of the cautery iron
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 91.7 x 61.4 cm
Contributors
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 Library no. 538271i