Cigar box, containing 24 oyster shells, and card label with press cutting about trephining with shells

Made:: 1900-1914 in England

Cigar box, hinged lid, containing twenty-four oyster shells, octroea edulis, similar to those used in trephination and card label with cutting from "The Medical Press" July 15, 1914, giving information on trephining by shells, English, 1914

Details

Category:: Surgery

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A680626

Materials:: wood, cotton wool, lining and metal, hinges

type:: boxes

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