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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.
  • The after treatment of wounds and injuries / by R.C. Elmslie.
  • The after treatment of wounds and injuries / by R.C. Elmslie.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the Prince and Princess of Wales at the opening ceremony for the new surgery. Photograph, c.1907.
  • Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Situs inversus, illustration
  • Ernst von Bergmann operating in an amphitheatre. Photogravure, 1907, after F. Skarbina, 1906.