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  • A surgical operation to reconstruct a patient's anterior cruciate ligament. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1996.
  • Mount Stuart Royal Naval Hospital, Isle of Bute: surgical staff performing an operation. Photograph, 191-.
  • "On the periphery": a patient's view of a surgical operation. Oil painting by Pauline Annesley, 1955.
  • "On the periphery": a patient's view of a surgical operation. Oil painting by Pauline Annesley, 1955.
  • "On the periphery": a patient's view of a surgical operation. Oil painting by Pauline Annesley, 1955.
  • Surgical instruments for the operation of cataracts, including a catheter and a empyema. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Surgical instruments and the performance of an operation on the abdomen. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
  • A surgical operation on a man's head. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • A surgical operation in which the surgeon communicates by microphone with onlookers. Gouache by J. Pignone, ca. 1934.
  • Sir William MacCormac about to perform a surgical operation at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. Albumen print, 1891.
  • A surgical operation on the knee of an elderly woman. Soft-ground etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1996.
  • A woman watching a surgeon approaching a body for an operation; representing a tribute to László Schultheisz on the occasion of his first surgical operation. Pen and ink drawing by Dénes Györgyi, 1918.
  • The recovery room, in which patients recover from a surgical operation. Soft-ground etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.
  • An operation in progress: a metal surgical implement is placed inside an incision in the armpit. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • An operation in progress: a metal surgical implement is placed inside an incision in the armpit. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • Above, Ferdinand Sauerbruch discussing a case; below left, a section of the audience; below right, a surgical operation. Process print after photographs by E. Salomon, 1930.
  • A breast operation to remove a lump, in progress: a metal surgical implement is placed inside an incision in the armpit. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.
  • A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.
  • A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.
  • A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.
  • A breast operation to remove a lump, in progress: a metal surgical implement is placed into the breast via an incision in the armpit. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • A breast operation to remove a lump, in progress: metal surgical tongs hold a lump taken from the breast via an incision in the armpit. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • Plate 55. Surgical instruments for operating on the bones.
  • A treatise on acupuncturation; being a description of a surgical operation originally peculiar to the Japonese [sic] and Chinese, and by them denominated Zin-King, now introduced into European practice, with directions for its performance, and cases illustrating its success / [James Morss Churchill].
  • A treatise on acupuncturation; being a description of a surgical operation originally peculiar to the Japonese [sic] and Chinese, and by them denominated Zin-King, now introduced into European practice, with directions for its performance, and cases illustrating its success / [James Morss Churchill].
  • A treatise on acupuncturation; being a description of a surgical operation originally peculiar to the Japonese [sic] and Chinese, and by them denominated Zin-King, now introduced into European practice, with directions for its performance, and cases illustrating its success / [James Morss Churchill].
  • A treatise on acupuncturation; being a description of a surgical operation originally peculiar to the Japonese [sic] and Chinese, and by them denominated Zin-King, now introduced into European practice, with directions for its performance, and cases illustrating its success / [James Morss Churchill].
  • A treatise on acupuncturation; being a description of a surgical operation originally peculiar to the Japonese [sic] and Chinese, and by them denominated Zin-King, now introduced into European practice, with directions for its performance, and cases illustrating its success / [James Morss Churchill].
  • Einar Key (fourth from left), a Swedish surgeon, in an operating theatre with other surgical staff. Photograph.