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Calculi

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Images about Calculi

48 images from works
  • Principles of lithotrity; or a treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision / By Baron Heurteloup.
  • Principles of lithotrity; or a treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision / By Baron Heurteloup.
  • Principles of lithotrity; or a treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision / By Baron Heurteloup.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), they are surrounded by a group of people. Pencil drawing by P. Quast, 1645.
  • <i>Livre des simples médecines</i>, in French
  • Germain Colot performing an operation for bladder stone. Coloured pencil drawing by A. Rivoulon.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity) Line engraving by L. van Leyden, 1524.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
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Works from the collections

167 works

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    On the preventive treatment of calculous disease and the use of solvent remedies / by Sir Henry Thompson.

    Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet | Date: 1888
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    • Online

    Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

    Astley Cooper | Date: 1822
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    A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis : with observations on the advantages attending it : and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time / by J.C. Carpue.

    Joseph Constantine Carpue | Date: 1819
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    MS.145

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Adenomatous Tumours of the Abdominal Viscera

    | Date: 1897-1950 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.6
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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Related topics

Mental Disorders
Kidney Diseases
Urinary Calculi
Surgical Instruments
Disease
Operations, Surgical
Excision (Surgery)
Mentally ill
Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic
Head - Surgery

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