M0003624: Scene inside Monastic Hospital and surgeons performing trephining

Date:: 2 October 1933

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/29/92

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0003519-M0003632WT/D/1/20/1/29
        M0003624: Scene inside Monastic Hospital and surgeons performing trephiningWT/D/1/20/1/29/92

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M0003624: Scene inside Monastic Hospital and surgeons performing trephining. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Scene inside Monastic Hospital showing the dominance of spiritual ideas.

Description

Photograph of two images. The top image is of a scene inside a monastic hospital showing the "dominance of spiritual ideas". The bottom image is is a scene depicting the "renaissance of medicine", with surgeons performing trephining on a patient, most likely from a 16th century manuscript. Only the top image is digitised.

Publication/Creation

2 October 1933

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16 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 2021.

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