M0002703: A man with scar from a skull operation

Date:
04 January 1932
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/22/82
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M0002703: A man with scar from a skull operation. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Two Arabs showing operation on the skull

Description

Reproduction of a half tone print, after two photographs, of a man possibly wearing a burnous, showing a scar on his forehead from a skull operation with caption underneath. One photograph is taken from the front showing his full face and the other from behind with his head turned to look at the camera. These images were reproduced from Hilton-Simpson, M.W.: Arab medicine & surgery: a study of the healing art in Algeria, London: Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1922. .Related images: M0002700/M0002700EB, M0002702/M0002702EB, M0002701/M0002701EB, M0002705/M0002705EB, M0002704/M0002704EB, M0002706/M0002706EB, M0002707/M0002707EB

Publication/Creation

04 January 1932

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds copies 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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