M0003436: Surgeons performing an operation with the use of Lister carbolic spray

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Use of the Lister carbolic spray, Antiseptic surgery, 1882.

Photograph of an engraving showing a group of surgeons performing an operation with the use of Lister carbolic spray as antiseptic, with caption underneath. This reproduction was made from Cheyne, W. Watson, Antiseptic surgery: its principles, practice, history and results, London: Smith, Elder, 1882.

14 March 1933

4 photographs sheet film negatives, photographic print; range in size from 10.2 x 12.7 cm to 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of 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.

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