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  • Two Tourniquets, 16th century
  • Surgical instruments including scalpels and tourniquets. Engraving.
  • Tourniquets: for compressing the principal arteries in amputations, and for suppressing violent haemorrhages proceeding from accidental wounds.
  • Surgical instruments: tourniquets. Engraving with etching by T. Jefferys.
  • Surgical instruments including trusses and tourniquets. Engraving with etching.
  • Tourniquets: strap-operated and screw-operated, for the arm and thigh. Engraving by J. Newton after E. Edwards, 1783.
  • Surgical instruments: tourniquets and amputating instruments. Engraving by Wilson Lowry, 1803.
  • Surgical instruments including trusses and tourniquets. Engraving with etching by Mutlow.
  • Surgical instruments: trusses or tourniquets for the treatment of hernias. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Six diagrams illustrating different methods of bandaging the body and use of tourniquets. Line engraving by J.E. de Sève.
  • Samway's Tourniquet clips.
  • L. Gillespie's case of scarificators and a tourniquet
  • Surgical instruments, including a tourniquet, couching needles and amputating knives. Engraving.
  • Nelson's spy-glass and tourniquet used in the amputation of his arm at Tenerife, 1797.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments, including a tourniquet. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Torture in a Sicilian prison in Monreale: the prisoner has a tourniquet applied to his forehead. Wood engraving.
  • A surgeon tying a tourniquet around a man's arm. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An amputated leg in a tourniquet supported by a piece of wood that covers the end of the stump. Engraving by J. Beugo.
  • A healthy-looking man with a tourniquet having a blood test, as apparent health can conceal syphilis. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1941.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • Three diagrams illustrating how to bleed an arm. Stipple engraving.
  • Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving by F. Sesoni, 1749.
  • Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving, 1743.
  • Points in arteries where pressure reduces bleeding. Colour lithograph by Rhode Island Council of War Agencies, 194-.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.