M0000496: Human skull with trephination marks and a sharks tooth trephine

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sharks tooth trephine and the skull trephined by it.

Photograph of a human skull showing signs of trephination and the tool used to do it. The items were previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.