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  • World War One: near the Somme Front, France: a Casualty Clearing Station operating theatre with surgeons at work. Photograph, 1916.
  • Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland (during use as a military hospital): a nurse in the operating theatre. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Operating theatre reception: one of the assistants sitting at a computer, with a chart of operations behind. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1995.
  • Boer War: the operating theatre of a hospital ship in which stands a naval man. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.
  • Hôpital Ophtalmologique A. de Rothschild, Paris: entrance at the intersection of Rue Manin and Rue Priestley, and operating theatre. Process print, 1913.
  • The medical quarters of the Melbourne, a ship of the Line: a ward deck, above, and an operating theatre, below. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • A surgeon is about to implant mechanical intestines in a patient in an operating theatre attended by a crowd of onlookers. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
  • Two Indian doctors with a British doctor and a British nurse in the operating theatre of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Photographic postcard by A.H. Fry, ca. 1915.
  • A physician rushes into an operating theatre, exclaiming that there has been an error in diagnosis; unfortunately, the patient is already lying there, opened up. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Alfred Hospital Training School for Nurses, Melbourne... : this is to certify that... has served a three years term of training as a pupil nurse in the wards of this hospital (including the nursing of sick children and gynaecological patients) also in the operation theatre and out-patients and casualty departments... qualifying her to act as a skilled medical & surgical nurse.
  • A surgical operation being performed, circa 1900.
  • M. Gondoin, Cross-section of theatre, in Description des ecoles de chirurgie
  • M. Gondoin, students and wall mural, in Description des ecoles de chirurgie
  • Anatomical theatre at Padua, Diorama
  • M. Gondoin, Plan du Rez du premier etage des Ecole de Chirurgie, in Description des ecoles de chirurgie
  • M. Gondoin, Plan du Rez de Chausseee des Ecoles de Chirurgie, in Description des ecoles de chirurgie
  • A Male Oesophago-Gastric Consultant Surgeon
  • Male Oesophago-Gastric Consultant Surgeons
  • Male surgeon in the Operating Room.
  • Three male surgeons operating on a patient.
  • Three male surgeons operating on a patient.
  • White male surgeon with scalpel
  • White male surgeon with scalpel
  • White male surgeon holding a heart (animal)
  • Pressure gauge on heart-lung machine.
  • Male surgeon in the Operating Room.
  • Two male surgeons operating on a patient.
  • Two male surgeons operating on a patient.
  • G. Q. Roberts, History of St. Barts
  • I. P. Pavlov talking in an operating room at his laboratory