M0004681: Top and right views of illustrations of trephined skulls

Date:
7 July 1936
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/37/83
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M0004681: Top and right views of illustrations of trephined skulls. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Top and right views of trephanned skull showing operation

Description

A reproduction of a photograph of print illustrations of trephined skulls. The top illustration is a Neolithic skull roughly 6000 years old from Seine-et-Oise, France. The bottom illustration is of a trephined from Kabylia in Northern Africa of a patient that possibly died during the operation as the results are incomplete.

Publication/Creation

7 July 1936

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Related material

Wellcome holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

Notes

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 2021.

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