M0007562: Glass containing blood and water for Lister display

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Lister, Glass containing blood and boiled water...

Photograph of a glass containing unputrified blood mixed with some water which has been boiled and cooled in a flask, under protection of a cotton cap, with draft caption to the left, likely as to be displayed in the Lister section of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The glass was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

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