M0008261: Midwifery forceps, from Ruff: The Expert Midwife (1637)
- Date:
- October 1941
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/71/92
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced September 2020: Forceps, midwifery, book illustration.
Description
Photograph of a woodcut of a pair of midwifery forceps, from Ruff, Jakob: The expert midwife, or an excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man…, London : Printed by E. G[riffin for S. B[urton and sold by Thomas Alchorn], [1637]. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accession number PHO 8271)
Publication/Creation
October 1941
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/5616
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.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request