Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephining by push-plough method with flint

Made:: 1801-1920 in England

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephining by push-plough method with flint, provenance unknown, 1801-1920

Details

Category:: Surgery

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652212

Materials:: bone and wire

type:: human remains and skull

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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