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.

Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.

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1 print : pen and ink drawing ; sheet 24.7 x 33.4 cm

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

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x, 235 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm

Book of illustrations to S. Maw, Son & Thompson's quarterly price-current : surgeons instruments, etc.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 18.5 x 30.3 cm

Breast cancer: the tenaculum of Helvetius and another surgical instrument for mastectomy. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.

A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman.

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Surgical instruments and apparatus

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

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

Book of illustrations to S. Maw, Son & Thompson's quarterly price-current : surgeons instruments, etc.

Breast cancer: the tenaculum of Helvetius and another surgical instrument for mastectomy. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.

A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman.

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Surgical instruments and apparatus

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Works

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

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

Book of illustrations to S. Maw, Son & Thompson's quarterly price-current : surgeons instruments, etc.

Breast cancer: the tenaculum of Helvetius and another surgical instrument for mastectomy. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.

A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman.

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