M0012049: Photograph of a closed case of Roman surgical instruments found in Germany, and presented by Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902), German physician, anthropologist and pathologist

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Case of Roman surgical instruments found in Germany

Photograph of a closed case of Roman surgical instruments found in Germany, and presented by Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902), German physician, anthropologist and pathologist. The M series register suggests that there is further information about the photograph or the case in correspondence from Dr E. [Edgar] Goldschmid, Lausanne, Switzerland, but this could not be identified in the WHMM archive. Related image: M0012050

1951

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 2022.

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