M0012283: Illustration of tourniquet invented and described by Jean Louis Petit

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Tourniquet invented and described by Jean Louis Petit.

Photograph of an engraving of a tourniquet invented and described by Jean Louis Petit, shown being applied to a man's leg. This reproduction was made from Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences, année ... avec les mémoires de mathématique & de physique, pour la même année : tirez des registres de cette Académie., 1718, p.200.

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

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

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.

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