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Charing Cross Hospital: Stanley Boyd in the old operating theatre. Photograph, 1900.

Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.

A surgical operation. Oil painting by or in the style of Jan Josef Horemans I.

A surgical operation: total knee replacement. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1997.

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving after D. Teniers.

A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.

An ophthalmic surgeon operates on the eye of a patient who is strapped to a chair. Line engraving.

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.

1 print : lithograph ; image 23.3 x 33 cm

A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.

The images of a surgeon (often itinerant) making an incision in a patient's head in order to extract 'stones' (implying madness in the individual) do not represent an actual operation, but are allegorical scenes refering to the subduction of 'folly' (madness) from the body. See further: W. Schupbach, A new look at The cure of folly, Medical history, 1978, vol. 22, pp. 267-281

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 18.9 x 14.1 cm

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Mezzotint by J. van der Bruggen after D. Teniers.

"Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.

Negative number 1071 in Knapp's original exhibition list
One of a series of glass negatives collected by Surgeon Commander Montague Henry Knapp, Hon. Director of the Naval Medical Section of the Imperial War Museum and exhibited at Crystal Palace in June 1920. Correspondence in the Wellcome Archives indicates that Knapp (as Hon. Director and organiser for the IWM) was involved in the transfer of surplus naval and military medical material from the Imperial War Museum to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, in setting up exhibits, and in acquiring other materials for the Wellcome collections. Material specifically relating to Knapp's activities in setting up the Naval Warfare Section in the Imperial War Museum have been transferred to the IWM.

1 photograph : glass photonegative ; glass negative 8.2 x 11 cm

Operation on a Turkish prisoner of war, in a Royal Naval Military Corps hut in Khiniskalo, Turkey. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Jan Schoemaker performing a surgical operation, 1922. Photograph by P. van Tol.

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Operations, Surgical

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A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Mezzotint by J. van der Bruggen after D. Teniers.

"Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.

Operation on a Turkish prisoner of war, in a Royal Naval Military Corps hut in Khiniskalo, Turkey. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Jan Schoemaker performing a surgical operation, 1922. Photograph by P. van Tol.

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Operations, Surgical

Images

Catalogue

A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Mezzotint by J. van der Bruggen after D. Teniers.

"Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.

Operation on a Turkish prisoner of war, in a Royal Naval Military Corps hut in Khiniskalo, Turkey. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Jan Schoemaker performing a surgical operation, 1922. Photograph by P. van Tol.

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