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  • Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic
  • Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth or tumour from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic
  • Joseph Clover administering chroloform from his inhaler.
  • The Walton-Minnitt Gas Air Apparatus, circa 1937
  • Signature of 'D. W. Buxton' Elliott & Manning, the Muscles...
  • Snow's Chloroform Inhaler
  • Laughing gas, a new comic song
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • Nooth's Apparatus.
  • An operation at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1910
  • Patient being given chloroform (T) Chloroform bottle (B)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • The effects of liquid chloroform on Simpson and his friends.
  • Medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Moutparts from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • 'Puretha' respirator for protection against poisonus gases. Chrome ulcer with loss of finger.
  • Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Epidural anaesthesia, artwork
  • Vials of drug solution
  • Anaesthesia, artwork
  • J. M. Charcot, Lecons du mardi, Paris: 1887
  • John Snow's inhaler.
  • Walton-Minnitt Gas Air Apparatus circa 1937
  • A face with a pointed chin, expressing pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.