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  • Cautery and cautery guard. Ladakh,N. India
  • Surgical instruments, mainly cautery irons. Drawing with watercolour.
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
  • A surgeon bandaging a patient's knee after applying a cautery, a clergy man and a wealthy patron (?) are observing the situation. Engraving.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating the liver?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A Japanese physician applying moxa (a substance produced from leaves of various wormwoods) as a cautery: igniting it on the skin of a patient's back. Wood engraving.
  • Surgery: a cupping glass (above) and a pot on top of a fire, with a cautery (?) and a pair of bellows. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • Several forms of cauteries
  • M0006553: Illustrations of cauteries, from <i>Chyrurgia Albucasim</i>, early 14th century
  • M0006557: Illustrations of cauteries for fistula, from <i>Chyrurgia Albucasim</i>, early 14th century
  • M0006554: Illustrations of cauteries for the ears, from <i>Chyrurgia Albucasim</i>, early 14th century
  • M0006556: Illustrations of cauteries for the eye lids, from <i>Chyrurgia Albucasim</i>, early 14th century
  • Plate VI. Various instruments and techniques used in surgery. Illustration of seton, moxa, acupuntcture needles, sutures, and cauteries.
  • M0006555: Illustrations of cauteries for treating ailments of the eye, from <i>Chyrurgia Albucasim</i>, early 14th century
  • M0007901: Cauterization scene and instruments
  • Pyrotechnie chirurgicale-pratique, ou l'art d'appliquer le feu en chirurgie / [Pierre-François Percy].
  • Mastectomy. Drawing attributed to a Dutch artist, 17th century.
  • M0008085: Amputation instruments, from Lowe: <i>A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgerie</i>
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery (8)
  • Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound. Pen drawing by ZS (?), 19--, after an engraving, 1603.
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (3)
  • The cure of Innocentius of Carthage: the prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo and others save Innocentius from painful surgery. Oil painting after Schelte Bolswert.
  • The cure of Innocentius of Carthage: the prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo and others save Innocentius from painful surgery. Oil painting after Schelte Bolswert.
  • Four vignettes demonstrating different cauterisation points on naked human bodies. Watercolour after a twelfth century manuscript.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • Two surgeons applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points on the chests of two male patients, the senior surgeon wears a pointed hat (?). Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • Two surgeons treating two seated male patients in a surgery, many surgeons' dishes are hanging from the ceiling. Line engraving by W. Kilian, 1652, after C. Ortz.