M0013486: Reduction of a dislocated mandible by a Greek surgeon, from Breasted: The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus, 1930

Date:
June 1954
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Description

Reproduction of an illustration from a 9th century manuscript by Apollonius of Kitum published in Breasted, James Henry: The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus : published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary in two volumes, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1930. Related images: M0009019, M0013435

Publication/Creation

June 1954

Physical description

1 photograph
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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

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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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