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  • Small bow-frame amputation saw, ornate design on damascened frame, ivory handle, from Hamonic collection.
  • Small bow-frame amputation saw, ornate design on damascened frame, ivory handle, from Hamonic collection.
  • Small bow-frame amputation saw, ornate design on damascened frame, ivory handle, from Hamonic collection.
  • Small bow-frame amputation saw, ornate design on damascened frame, ivory handle, from Hamonic collection.
  • Small bow-frame amputation saw, ornate design on damascened frame, ivory handle, from Hamonic collection.
  • Devils saw away at a colic sufferer's abdomen. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, 1833.
  • [Leaflet advertising Potter's Elixir of Damiana & Saw Palmetto for loss of men's sexual appetite (herbal viagra)].
  • [Leaflet advertising Potter's Elixir of Damiana & Saw Palmetto for loss of men's sexual appetite (herbal viagra)].
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, long section and plan. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Surgical instruments for trepanning, including Mr. Hey's large straight saw. Engraving by Wilson Lowry after J. Farey jun.
  • Surgical instruments, including an amputating saw, an amputating knife, scalpels and bone nippers. Engraving by Wilson Lowry, 1810.
  • Apes, some in clothes, sitting below a forest tree and using a log as a see-saw. Etching.
  • Two men saw at a log which is resting in a wooden cradle. Coloured lithograph by H. Tesson.
  • Two men are using a plank over a large log as a see-saw; representing the mechanics of levers. Engraving.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw while he is seated and conscious, blood flows to the floor. Woodcut, 1531.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw while he is seated and conscious, blood flows to the floor. Woodcut, 1531.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A surgeon amputating a patient's leg with a saw, he is being held in a particular position by two attendants. Engraving, 1738.
  • A carpenter sawing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A carpenter sawing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, short section and plan of the water-wheel mechanism. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Daniel O'Connell and the devil attempt to saw an oak beam that unites England and Ireland. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • Children are rushing out of school to play on the see-saw, their books and caps are on the ground. Coloured lithograph by Stannard & Son.
  • Woodwork: felling the tree, planing, sawing, and instruments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments for the amputation of limbs, including an amputation saw, bone nippers and cartilege forceps. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A pregnant woman crying as a saw cuts her newborn foetus in half: preventing abortion in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 2000.