M0009906: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: earliest references to anaesthesia in English printed books

Date:: March 1947

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/87/29

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0009877-M0009981WT/D/1/20/1/87
        M0009906: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: earliest references to anaesthesia in English printed booksWT/D/1/20/1/87/29

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M0009906: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: earliest references to anaesthesia in English printed books. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced February 2021: Anaesthesia: earliest references in English printed books.

Description

Photograph of a display from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's 1946 exhibition on anaesthesia showcasing two early references to anaesthesia in English printed books: Hieronymus Brunschwig's The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, 1525 and William Bullein's Bulleins bulwarke of defence againste all sicknes..., 1562.

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/D/1117 and EPB/D/1149/1

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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.

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

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Anesthetics

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