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  • An old woman dressed in rags holding her left arm in a bandage made of straw and a stick in her right hand. Etching possibly after J. Callot.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one patient has his leg dressed, another gets injected and two nurses roll a bandage. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Anatomy, surgery and botany; top, dissected head showing arteries; centre, methods of bandaging the thorax and head; below, cleft lip (harelip) and instruments for surgery on it; bottom, fly agaric mushroom. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • A personified penis wearing a condom and safety equipment and another, unprotected, with injuries bandaged up, to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow: a nurse and two soldiers, one of whom has a bandage on his head, sitting on deck chairs in a garden with blossom trees in the background. Photograph, c. 1922.
  • Four studies of elephants, including a side-view of an elephant with a bandaged leg, with details of the head, breasts and genital area. Etching with stipple, by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1770-1779.
  • A blood droplet containing an illustration of a wounded patient in bandages lying in a hospital bed receiving a blood transfusion; surrounded by images of war-torn villages and violence; an anti-AIDS advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The exhumed corpse of the French King Henry IV standing bandaged and upright in a coffin in the vaults of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Line engraving with etching by E. Bovinet, A. Chataigner and T.B. de Jolimont after E.H. Langlois.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English.
  • A bandaged foot, a man holding a pair of work boots, a patient in a hospital bed, a skateboard and helmet, and a gloved hand holding an extended condom; an advertisement for protection against AIDS by the Agence française de lutte contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English. From the Latin.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English. From the Latin.
  • A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English. From the Latin.
  • A mother tending her sick child, a boy washing his hands, a man bandaging a wound, a woman washing clothes and 2 people cleaning their teeth; one of a series of AIDS prevention educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management I. of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds II. of the several operations performed on all parts of the body III. of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... / Translated into English. By Lawrence Heister.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management I. of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumours, and ulcers, of all kinds II. of the several operations performed on all parts of the body III. of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... / Translated into English. By Lawrence Heister.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • The compleat surgeon, or, The whole art of surgery explain'd in a most familiar method : containing the principles of that art; and, an exact account of tumours, ulcers, and wounds, simple and complicated, with those by gunshot: As also of venereal diseases, the scurvy, fractures, and luxations: With all sorts of chirurgical operations; the bandages and dressings, which are illustrated in forty copper plates; the method of dissecting the brain, by M. Duncan; several reflections and new machines by M. Arnaud. Likewise, a chirurgical dispensatory; shewing the manner of preparing all such medicines as are most necessary for a surgeon; and particularly the mercurial panacea / Written in French, by M. Le Clerc.
  • Nepal; Kunde hospital in the Khumbu, 1986. This is the only hospital in the Khumbu region. A 'Visitors Note' at the gate reads: 'Interested visitors may be shown the hospital between 8 am - 5 pm depending on the availability of staff. For this service a donation is appreciated. The hospital depends on donations.' In 1986, the hospital was remarkably well equipped considering its isolation. There were facilities for minor, and in an emergency, major surgery and dentistry, local and general anaesthesia, and an X-ray machine running off its own generator. Some diagnostic facilities were carried out, and the walls of the main clinic were lined with shelves packed with a good supply of drugs, bandages and sutures.
  • Ruck's improved portable medical galvanic apparatus : sold wholesale and retail / by William Ruck.
  • Ruck's improved portable medical galvanic apparatus : sold wholesale and retail / by William Ruck.
  • Bandaging techniques for use in first aid. Lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • Bandaging techniques for use in first aid. Lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • Bandaging techniques for use in first aid. Lithograph, ca. 1900.