M0002704: "Trepanning saws, elevators and weights" / M0002704EB: Retractors, scrapers, and drills used for scalping

Date:: 04 January 1932

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/22/83

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0002602-M0002724WT/D/1/20/1/22
        M0002704: "Trepanning saws, elevators and weights" / M0002704EB: Retractors, scrapers, and drills used for scalpingWT/D/1/20/1/22/83

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M0002704: "Trepanning saws, elevators and weights" / M0002704EB: Retractors, scrapers, and drills used for scalping. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Surgical instruments used by Arabs. Trepanning sawa, elevators and weights

Description

Below on plate: Reproduction of a half tone print, after a photograph, of Arabic surgical instruments including trepanning saws, elevators and weights, with caption underneath. Above on plate: Reproduction of a half tone print, after a photograph, of retractors, scrapers, and drills used as scalping instruments, with caption. These images were reproduced from Hilton-Simpson, M.W.: Arab medicine & surgery: a study of the healing art in Algeria, London: Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1922. Related images: M0002700/M0002700EB, M0002702/M0002702EB, M0002703, M0002705/M0002705EB, M0002701/M0002701EB, M0002706/M0002706EB, M0002707/M0002707EB

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04 January 1932

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

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