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  • Vincentius Bellovacensis, Speculum Naturale
  • Speculum matricis, 1671: embryo
  • Above, a speculum; below, spheres. Engraving with etching by T. Jefferys.
  • Katoptrob Speculum venarum, et arteriarum.
  • M0013942: Vaginal speculum from Fabricius: <i>L'opere chirugiche</i>, 1678
  • A surgeon or gynaecologist examining a woman with a vaginal speculum. Drawing by Félicien Rops.
  • A surgeon or gynaecologist examining a woman with a vaginal speculum. Drawing by Félicien Rops.
  • Speculum: wood. Reconstruction of Abulcasis (A.D. 936-1013)
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes, reflected by a speculum. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes, reflected by a speculum. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Ancient Roman (?) bronze surgical instruments: twelve figures, including a speculum. Etching by A. Ottieri after V. Mollame, 18--?.
  • An infected sore on the female genitalia shown with the aid of a vaginal speculum. Watercolour by C.D' Alton, 18--.
  • Top left, section of the heart; top right, intestines; centre left and right, hernia; bottom left, carotide; bottom right, speculum. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Surgery: instruments for the performance of a glossectomy, including a pharingotome, an obturator and a speculum. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A physician holding an astronomical instrument looks into a mirror to observe the backside of a woman who inserts a speculum between her buttocks; right, an ape. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
  • Obstetrics, Simpson's bistouri cache
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • Marie Louis Félix Lejars. Process print after A. Barrère, 1930.
  • A doctor (Melchior Sebisch the younger?) seated holding the staff of Aesculapius; a dog, a cockerel, an owl and a dragon next to him. Engraving, 1661.
  • Instruments found at Pompeii.
  • Praxis universae artis medicae, generalium aeque, ac particularium humani corporis praeter naturam affectuum dignotionem, juditium et curam omnium uberrimè complectens, summo labore, et studio concinata, & unum recenter in volumen collecta ... / [Andrea Cesalpino].
  • A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • The mirror of sinners, the sword of vengeance of sin. Oil painting by a Spanish painter after G. Olgiati.
  • M0013244: Facsimilie models of crystal structures
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo. Line engraving by P. de Jode the younger after E. Quellinus after J. Mantelius.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • Surgical apparatus: includes demonstrations of an ophthalmoscope and a laryngoscope. Wood engraving, 1850/1880?.
  • A vain woman combing her hair, a fool showing her her face in a mirror, and a philosopher pointing to a skull as a reminder of the vanity of transient things. Line engraving attributed to Pieter de Jode II after J. Jordaens.
  • Plate XXXIV. Surgical instruments used for external urethrotomy in prostatectomy (removal of part of the prostate gland).