Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
32 results
  • Surgical instruments for the treatment of leg injuries. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Horse's legs: vertical lines due to injury
  • The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.
  • A wounded leg with a quilled suture. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • A splint for a broken limb. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Coloured engraving.
  • Advertisment for a thigh splint: two figures, including an illustration showing the splint in place on a bandaged limb. Engraving with etching, 1830/1860?.
  • A diagram illustrating an apparatus to bind together a broken leg. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving on yellow silk by P. Bohacz.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving on yellow silk.
  • A piece of apparatus designed by J. Wathen to bind together a broken leg. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Three men ride through the sky on black, red and white lions (colours of the alchemical process); beneath, men lay sprawled among dismembered limbs. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • Two diagrams comparing two sets of apparatus for the leg designed by Vesalius and Belloq. Etching by J. Bell.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • A sailor setting the broken leg of another sailor after an accident on deck. Halftone after F. Brangwyn, 1895.
  • A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • Diagrams illustrating how to bandage and set fractures in splints. Engraving by J. Johnstone.
  • The surgeon cannot extract an arrow from the thigh of Aeneas; Venus brings a medicinal herb to accomplish what the surgeon cannot. Oil painting after Virgil.
  • The crusaders attack Jerusalem: Godfrey is wounded; an angel brings a medicinal herb to accomplish what the surgeon cannot. Etching by Antonio Tempesta, 16--.
  • Diagrams illustrating: five bandaged legs (three with different sorts of splints), two heads showing veins, a bandaged head, a bandaged torso, a recepticle with body for curing shoulder dislocations and an eye operation. Line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1830.
  • Antiochus IV of Syria, sick and injured by a fall from his chariot, dictates his will as surgeons bandage his leg. Etching by N. Hallé, 1738.
  • A surgeon treating a male patient's leg. Engraving.
  • Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.