Sir William MacCormac about to perform a surgical operation at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. Albumen print, 1891.

[New York], 1891.

1 photoprint : albumen

Sir William MacCormac, Senior Surgeon of St.Thomas' Hospital, London, at the request of Prof. Lewis A. Sayre, gave a clinical lecture in the amphitheatre of Bellevue Hospital, on the 30th of September, 1891, and performed an exsection of a diseased elbow joint. The above photograph was made as Sir William was about to commence the operation. Inscription in pen and ink on back of mount of item catalogued: "Mr Arthur E. Durham F.R.C.S. from his friend Lewis A. Sayre 1891."

Wellcome Collection 110i