M0007422: Illustration of a man with pterygium symptoms from Ophthalmodouleia

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Operation for Pterygium

Photograph of a woodcut illustration from Bartisch, George: Ophthalmodouleia, 1583. The illustration depicts a man with pterygium symptoms, a triangular or wedge-shaped growth of conjunctival tissue which has grown over the surface of the cornea, with captions above and below in German. Related images: M0007416, M0007415, M0007423, M0007424, M0007425, M0007426.

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.