M0007563: Flask of boiled milk for Lister display

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Lister, Flask of boiled milk, 1877

Photograph of a flask of boiled milk prepared on 27th August 1877, with draft caption to the left, likely as to be displayed in the Lister section of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The flask was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.