M0006370: Lower section of a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display case: "Theory of Prehistoric Cranial Trephination. Dr Wilson Parry Exhibition"

Date:
17 September 1939
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WT/D/1/20/1/53/52
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M0006370: Lower section of a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display case: "Theory of Prehistoric Cranial Trephination. Dr Wilson Parry Exhibition". Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2020: Lower section of show Case of Dr. Wilson Parry's Theory of Prehistoric Cranial Trephination

Description

Photograph of a display at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in July 1939 including several skull fragments and trephination tools. Thomas Wilson Parry (1866-1945) was a doctor who researched trephining and would demonstrate the practice using different tools. A number of skulls, skull fragments and tools were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and are now held by the Science Museum. Related images: M0006367, M0006368, M0006369.

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17 September 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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