M0012050: Photograph of an open case displaying various Roman surgical instruments found in Germany, and presented by Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902), German physician, anthropologist and pathologist

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Roman surgical instruments, Dr. Goldschmid correspondence

Photograph of an open case displaying various Roman surgical instruments found in Germany, and presented by Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902), German physician, anthropologist and pathologist. The M series registersuggests that there is further information about the photograph or the case in correspondence from Dr E. [Edgar] Goldschmid, Lausanne, Switzerland, but this could not be identified in the WHMM archive. Related image: M0012050

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 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 2022.

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