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  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth or tumour from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic
  • Ernst von Bergmann operating in an amphitheatre. Photogravure, 1907, after F. Skarbina, 1906.