M0009909: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: anaesthesia exhibition, 1946

Date:: March 1947

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/87/32

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

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: M0009877-M0009981WT/D/1/20/1/87
        M0009909: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: anaesthesia exhibition, 1946WT/D/1/20/1/87/32

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Anaesthesia exhibition, 1946

Description

Photograph of a display from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's 1946 exhibition on anaesthesia showcasing three works: the title page of James Braid's Neurypnology, 1843; two pages from James Esdaile's Mesmerism in India, 1846 giving a list of operations on hypnotised patients; and the title page of John Elliotson's Numerous cases of surgical operations without pain in mesmeric state, 1843.

Publication/Creation

March 1947

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publications depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/15181, EPB/A/21826 and EPB/B/21617

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.

Copyright note

Terms of use

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