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  • 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.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: operating theatre. Photograph by Marshall, Keene & Co.
  • Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.
  • Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre. Photograph, ca. 1909.
  • Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre and equipment. Photograph, ca. 1909.
  • Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre and staff. Photograph, ca. 1909.
  • Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre and staff. Photograph, ca. 1909.
  • Operating theatre reception: one of the assistants sitting at a computer, with a chart of operations behind. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1995.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • The operating theatre of Otto Lanz, Amsterdam. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • Hornsey Cottage Hospital, Crouch End: nurses in the operating theatre. Process print, ca. 1915.
  • Clinique Antoine-Chantin, Paris: operating theatres, and washbasins for the surgeons. Process print, 1913.
  • Animals dressed as doctors are about to vivisect a man in an operating theatre or anatomy theatre. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
  • Animals dressed as doctors are about to vivisect a man in an operating theatre or anatomy theatre. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
  • Clinique Antoine-Chantin, Paris: operating theatres, and washbasins for the surgeons. Process print, 1913.
  • York, England: nurses and patient in the operating theatre of the York County Hospital. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.
  • Clinique Antoine-Chantin, Paris: operating theatres, and washbasins for the surgeons. Process print, 1913.
  • Hôpital Ophtalmologique A. de Rothschild, Paris: entrance at the intersection of Rue Manin and Rue Priestley, and operating theatre. Process print, 1913.
  • University College Hospital, London: railings from the operating theatre re-erected in a garden. Photograph.
  • Opening ceremony for a new operating theatre at the London Hospital. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1892.
  • Boer War: the operating theatre of a hospital ship in which stands a naval man. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.
  • World War One: the H.M.S. Barham: operating theatre with three medics. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • World War One: the H.M.S. Barham: operating theatre with three medics. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Ernst von Bergmann operating in an amphitheatre. Photogravure, 1907, after F. Skarbina, 1906.
  • Veterinary operating theatre
  • Veterinary operating theatre
  • Veterinary practice operating theatre
  • A surgical operation. Etching by Stuyvesant Van Veen, 1931.
  • British Orthopaedic Association members view an operation performed by Vittorio Putti and staff at the Rizzoli Institute, Bologna. Photograph, 1924.