M0007426: Illustration of a surgeon operating on a patient's eyes from Ophthalmodouleia

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Operation on the eye

Photograph of a woodcut illustration from Bartisch, George: Ophthalmodouleia, 1583. The illustration depicts a surgeon operating on a patient's eyes from above with the patient laid on a table. Related images: M0007416, M0007422, M0007423, M0007424, M0007425, M0007415.

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 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 2020.

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