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  • Surgical instruments and bandages, as well as a saw. Engraving by J. Brown.
  • Surgical instruments, including protheses, pliers and a bone-saw. Engraving with etching by Mutlow.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Surgical instruments, including saws, pliers and hammers. Coloured lithograph.
  • Surgical instruments, including saws, scalpels and forceps. Engraving with etching, 1771.
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps; advertising the work of the surgical instrument-maker J. Songy. Etching, 1732.
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps, made by Isaac Grenier; advertising his goods for sale. Etching by H. Neutte [?], 1698.
  • John Cargill, instrument maker, at ye Saw & Crown in Lombard Street, London : makes & sells all sorts of surgeons instruments, razors, scizers, penknives, caseknives, carving knives, cuttoes, &c. : at reasonable rates.
  • John Cargill, instrument maker, at ye Saw & Crown in Lombard Street, London : makes & sells all sorts of surgeons instruments, razors, scizers, penknives, caseknives, carving knives, cuttoes, &c. : at reasonable rates.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • Surgical operations on the foot, ankle and knee: six figures. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • Surgical instruments of the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • Two surgeons amputating the leg and arm of the same patient who is being restrained by assistants. Pen drawing after an engraving, 1597.
  • A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
  • Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving by F. Sesoni, 1749.
  • Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving, 1743.
  • 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 surgical operation. Etching by Stuyvesant Van Veen, 1931.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as a devil when he asks for his fee. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Fifteen French doctors wearing aprons and holding various instruments. Colour lithograph by A. Barrère, ca. 1903.
  • Surgical instruments case, time of Elizabeth I.
  • John Best at ye Mace ye corner of Lumbard Street bext ye Stocks Market maketh razors, sissers, launcets, penknives : and all sorts of chirurgeons instruments : also by him are sold fine hoanes.