M0006055: Reconstruction of a surgical operation in a late Stone Age culture
- Date:
- 25 January 1939
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/50/56
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced August 2020: Reconstruction of surgical operation, from Stone Age.
Description
Reproduction of an artistic representation of a surgical operation on a woman's skull based on material and photographs from the region in Peru. The illustration is reproduced as the frontispiece in Moodie, Roy L: Paleopathology: an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois press, 1923.
Publication/Creation
25 January 1939
Physical description
2 photographs sheet film negatives; 10 x 12.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative
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 2020.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request