M0005077: Use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture material

Date:: 28 November 1936

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/41/30

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        M0005077: Use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture materialWT/D/1/20/1/41/30

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M0005077: Use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture material. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture material.

Description

Reproduction of an illustration of the use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture material described by Gabriele Ferrara in his work Nova selva di cirurgia, Venice, 1596. The reproduction is from Annals of medical history, 1936, vol.8 no.6

Publication/Creation

28 November 1936

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

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