UCT Department of Surgery's Collection of 20th Century Clinical Photographs

Artificial Nose

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Title

Artificial Nose

Description

Artificial nose, made of plated metal. Such noses would have been made to replace an original, which may have been congenitally absent or deformed, lost through accident or during combat or due to a degenerative disease, such as syphilis

Creator

Unknown

Source

Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_nose,_17th-18th_century._(9663809400).jpg

Publisher

Science Museum London; Science and Society Picture Library

Date

17th-18th century

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

Type

Plated metal artificial nose

Collection

Objects

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Citation

Unknown, “Artificial Nose,” UCT Department of Surgery's Collection of 20th Century Clinical Photographs, accessed March 12, 2025, http://surgeryclinicalphotos.uct.ac.za/items/show/70.

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