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  • An allegorical figure wearing a large variety of surgical instruments including some on his head and hands. Etching after an engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • M0008167: Tibetan and Indian surgical instruments
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Eight ancient Roman surgical instruments. Watercolour, 1850/1910.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving with etching.
  • Surgical instruments for midwifery. Engraving by Andrew Bell.
  • M0008206: 16th century speculum and mouth gags
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • A diagram of a head illustrating a jaw and chin brace. Stipple print by J. Bell.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.
  • Leiden, the Netherlands: the anatomy theatre, interior of a church, town weighing establishment and portraits. Line engraving.
  • Surgical instruments used, and operations successfully carried out, by an English travelling operator claiming royal patronage. Line engraving, 16--.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.
  • Christ is circumcised in a crowded church. Engraving by A. Sadeler after J. Speckaert.
  • 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 extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.
  • Allegory of surgery. Engraving with etching by B. L. Prevost.
  • Above, surgical instruments and apparatus to cure a fractured humerus; below, Huso, the Isinglass fish. Engraving with etching by T. Jefferys.
  • M0008194: Roman speculum, 50 A.D.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • Surgical instruments, including a catheter, bistouries, needles and probes. Engraving by J. Taylor.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving.
  • A surgical cutting instrument: two figures. Line engraving, 18--.
  • Two human figures illustrating the reduction of dislocations of the foramen ovale and the dorsum ilii. Coloured pen drawing by G.E. Blenkins, 1831.
  • Left, Raw's grooved catheter; right, bladder of a male. Engraving with etching.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • Napoleon visiting the wounded after the Battle of Eylau. Coloured etching.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Germain Colot performing an operation for bladder stone. Coloured pencil drawing by A. Rivoulon.