M0009908: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: anaesthesia exhibition, 1946

Date:: March 1947

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/87/31

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0009877-M0009981WT/D/1/20/1/87
        M0009908: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: anaesthesia exhibition, 1946WT/D/1/20/1/87/31

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M0009908: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: anaesthesia exhibition, 1946. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced February 2021: Anaesthesia exhibition, 1946

Description

Photograph of a display from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's 1946 exhibition on anaesthesia showcasing the title page of Sir James Young Simpson's Anaesthetic midwifery, 1848 and two pages of Sir Humphrey Davy's Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide..., 1800.

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March 1947

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publications depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/48366/1 and EPB/B/19797

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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 2021.

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