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  • Charing Cross Hospital: Stanley Boyd in the old operating theatre. Photograph, 1900.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by or in the style of Jan Josef Horemans I.
  • A surgical operation: total knee replacement. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1997.
  • A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving after D. Teniers.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • An ophthalmic surgeon operates on the eye of a patient who is strapped to a chair. Line engraving.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), they are surrounded by a group of people. Pencil drawing by P. Quast, 1645.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • Mastectomy. Drawing attributed to a Dutch artist, 17th century.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
  • A surgical operation on the knee of an elderly woman. Soft-ground etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1996.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity) Line engraving by L. van Leyden, 1524.
  • Ernst von Bergmann operating in an amphitheatre. Photogravure, 1907, after F. Skarbina, 1906.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • Surgeons performing an operation on a woman's breast in the seventeenth century. Oil painting, 18-- (?).
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital: a surgical operation. Aquatint by Julia Midgley, 1998.
  • A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.
  • A warning about the hazardous and the non-hazardous practices in relation to the transmission of AIDS issued by the Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit [Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health]. Colour lithograph.
  • Thomas Brugis: his portrait, with vignettes of the work and equipment of the surgeon and apothecary. Line engraving by T. Cross.
  • An operator making an incision behind the ear of a seated patient, two assistants restraining the patient, and six other people in the room. Oil painting attributed to Joachim van den Heuvel, 163-.
  • A man's body receiving the ministrations of a healer. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • A gynaecological operation. Colour lithograph by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.
  • Jan Schoemaker performing a surgical operation, 1922. Photograph by P. van Tol.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), in the background is a manic woman who is waiting for the operation. Photogravure, 1926, after T. de Brij after M. de Vos.
  • A sitting physician is trepanning another man's head while two others consult. Watercolour drawing.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.