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Medical instruments and apparatus

Images

  • A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Price list of the Veedee, fitted cases, and of extra attachments designed for special uses / The Veedee Company.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.

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