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  • White male surgeon with scalpel
  • White male surgeon with scalpel
  • Surgical instruments, including a lithotomy knife, a trepanning scalpel and forceps. Engraving by Page.
  • Surgical instruments (forceps, scissors and scalpel); advertising a trade exhibition in Baden-Württemberg. Lithograph after F. Mezger, 1965.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments including a small tube for inserting into the body to allow fluid to enter or escape (cannulla) and a surgical scalpel (bistoury) Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • An écorché figure, lying supine on a dissecting table, observed by two students: four instruments of dissection, including a scalpel, forceps and scissors, are also shown resting on the table. Stipple print by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Scalpels, from 'Chirurgia'
  • Surgical instruments including scalpels and tourniquets. Engraving.
  • Six scalpels and a case, used by Lister.
  • Surgical instruments including scalpels. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Surgical instruments, including scalpels and catheters. Engraving by Wilson Lowry, 1810.
  • Surgical instruments, including saws, scalpels and forceps. Engraving with etching, 1771.
  • Surgical instruments, including needles and scalpels. Engraving with etching by George Bickham.
  • Surgical instruments, including needles and scalpels. Engraving with etching by George Bickham.
  • Surgical instruments, including an amputating saw, an amputating knife, scalpels and bone nippers. Engraving by Wilson Lowry, 1810.
  • Surgery: an assortment of surgical instruments, including a chisel, a spatula, tweezers and scalpels. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • 6 Roman surgical instruments:
  • Trepanning
  • Dog castration, incision
  • A man helps two people, one of them a surgeon, suffering from plague. Drawing, c. 1789, after P. Mignard.
  • Aspirators. Manufacturer's catalogue, p. 289.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • An anatomist, "Mr Le Professeur C...", dissecting a cadaver laid out on a trestle table, while a seated man looks on. Etching by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1869.
  • A diseased lung. Watercolour.
  • Chapard, veterinarian at Chantilly. Colour lithograph after A. Bisetzky, 1884.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.