M0005077: Use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture material

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture material.

Reproduction of an illustration of the use of turtle gut dipped in wine as suture material described by Gabriele Ferrara in his work Nova selva di cirurgia, Venice, 1596. The reproduction is from Annals of medical history, 1936, vol.8 no.6

28 November 1936

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy 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.