M0008462: Crochets used during the embalming process / M0008463: Knives and hooks used in the embalming process

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Archiv fur Geschichte der Medizin.

Two images on one negative: reproductions of photographs of tools used when embalming a body. Crochets are used to extract the brain through the nostrils. Knives and hooks are used when making the preliminary incision. Reproduced in Archiv fur Geschichte der Medizin, B.D.5, 1912

22 December 1941

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.