M0008147: Surgical instruments from Nigeria and the Congo

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Display of surgical knives and lancets from Nigeria and what was at the time the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). The instruments were acquired and put on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, but are not held by Wellcome Collection. The photograph of display was accessioned in 1935 (accession number PHO 3876).

M0008147: Surgical instruments from Nigeria and the Congo

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