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Surgical instruments and apparatus

Images

  • Surgical instruments and patients undergoing treatment. Engraving with etching.
  • A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps, made by Isaac Grenier; advertising his goods for sale. Etching by H. Neutte [?], 1698.
  • Surgical instruments for the treatment of hernias. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.
  • Couching instruments. Engraving by Thomas Jefferys.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.
  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
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Catalogue

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    Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

    | Date: 1860-1910 | Reference: 568370i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0007753: Case of instruments belonging to Joseph Lister

    | Date: April 1941
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0006643: Doctor's bag used to carry instruments

    | Date: 11 March 1940
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0005000: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

    | Date: 4 November 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/40/88
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle-Walsingham, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

    Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638. | Date: 1762 | Reference: 22618i
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