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  • 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.
  • A young man removing a bandage from his hand, while an old woman offers him another; representing the sense of touch. Etching by G. Greux after D. Teniers.
  • Achilles bandaging the wounded arm of Patroclus. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1936, after an Attic cup by Sosias, c. 500 B.C.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • A surgeon treating a male patient's leg. Engraving.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
  • C.G. Le Clerc, A description of bandages and
  • Schistosomiasis: how it is transmitted and prevented. Colour lithographs, 1963.
  • Schistosomiasis: how it is transmitted and prevented. Colour lithographs, 1963.
  • Schistosomiasis: how it is transmitted and prevented. Colour lithographs, 1963.
  • An ankylosis of the bones of the fractured right femur (thigh-bone) and tibia (lower leg bone) (figs 1-2) and the radius and ulna (bones of the forearm) joined by a flexible callus (figs 3-4) Engraving, 1749.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.