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  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Four women with knives and wooden paddles are cutting and beating the wool and a man is putting it through a combing device. Stipple engraving.
  • A cutler, or maker of knives, daggers and swords, working in his shop as a customer tests the weight of a sword. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments, including instruments to extract the head of a dead foetus and knives. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A pork-butcher's shop: two butchers are working with knives and cleavers as another makes sausages, a woman has come to buy and is holding some money in her hand. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • John Cargill, instrument maker, at ye Saw & Crown in Lombard Street, London : makes & sells all sorts of surgeons instruments, razors, scizers, penknives, caseknives, carving knives, cuttoes, &c. : at reasonable rates.
  • John Cargill, instrument maker, at ye Saw & Crown in Lombard Street, London : makes & sells all sorts of surgeons instruments, razors, scizers, penknives, caseknives, carving knives, cuttoes, &c. : at reasonable rates.
  • Edward Stanton at the Saw and Crown in Lombard Street London : lancet-maker : maketh and selleth all sorts of surgeons instruments likewise razors scissors penknives knives & forks... NB lancets and other instruments carefully ground and sett.
  • Edward Stanton at the Saw and Crown in Lombard Street London : lancet-maker : maketh and selleth all sorts of surgeons instruments likewise razors scissors penknives knives & forks... NB lancets and other instruments carefully ground and sett.
  • A cooper's workshop: two men and a boy are using knives and a spokeshave to make hoops fit around the staves of a barrel, other men outside are hammering on lids, some tools of their trade are hanging on the walls. Coloured etching.
  • John Chasson, razor & surgeons instrument maker : at the C and Cross, in Newgate Street near St. Martins Le Grand, London : makes and sells all sorts of surgeons instruments, razor, lancets, scissors, penknives & all sorts of knives & forkes... / John Chasson, coutelier.
  • An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.
  • John Best at ye Mace ye corner of Lumbard Street bext ye Stocks Market maketh razors, sissers, launcets, penknives : and all sorts of chirurgeons instruments : also by him are sold fine hoanes.
  • A pedlar with his tray of wares holds up a pair of scissors. Line engraving after M. Laroon, 1711.
  • Old eating implements: spoons, forks, and a knife. Engraving after Schnebbelie.
  • North American Eskmio slate knife blade, with bone handle.
  • A knife-grinder sharpening a blade on a grinding wheel as a customer arrives with a plane to be sharpened. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery (1)
  • Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • "The monster" (Renwick Williams) attacking a woman with a knife and fork. Etching by J. Gillray, 1790.
  • A warrior. Gouache drawing.
  • Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound. Pen drawing by ZS (?), 19--, after an engraving, 1603.
  • The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • A witch casting spells over a steaming cauldron. Engraving by H.S. Thomassin after Demaretz.
  • A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.