M0010822: A Sudanese man suffering from mental illness restrained with a y-shaped piece of wood bolted around his neck

Date:
September 1948
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/95/91
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M0010822: A Sudanese man suffering from mental illness restrained with a y-shaped piece of wood bolted around his neck. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced April 2021: Primitive method of restraint.

Description

Photograph taken in Sudan, 1947. According to Dr N. Corkill the wooden stake was embedded in the ground and broken off by the patient, who then arrived at Dr Corkill's hospital with the remainder around his neck. Related images: V0030864

Publication/Creation

September 1948

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negative; 12 x 10 cm photographic print; 12 x 9.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 565755i

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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