Human skull, used by Dr T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate different methods of primitive trephination, with excised bone on wires, provenance unknown, 1801-1920
Details
- Category:
- Surgery
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A651999
- Materials:
- bone, ivory and metal, wire
- Measurements:
-
height 160 mm
length 199 mm
width 140 mm
quadrilateral excision: length 22 mm
quadrilateral excision: width 20 mm
rondelle: diameter 44 mm
scraping: diameter 32 mm
4th trephination hole: diameter 18 mm
max triangular wedge: length 52 mm
- type:
- human remains and skulls
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
