M0008419: Military surgeon's trepanning instruments, early 18th century

Date:: November 1941

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/73/49

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008371-M0008471WT/D/1/20/1/73
        M0008419: Military surgeon's trepanning instruments, early 18th centuryWT/D/1/20/1/73/49

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M0008419: Military surgeon's trepanning instruments, early 18th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced September 2020: Army Trephining instruments, early 18th century.

Description

Display of early 18th century trepanning instruments formerly beloning to the French Garrison at Strasbourg in a case with a handrwritten inventory.They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

November 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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 2020.

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