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  • A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • A splint for a broken limb. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • A diagram of a head illustrating a jaw and chin brace. Stipple print by J. Bell.
  • Five kinds of treatment in hospitals and elsewhere. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
  • A patient jumping up and screaming with pain while a surgeon is treating his leg; an onlooking woman seems to be pleading with the surgeon. Etching by J.G. van Vliet, c. 1630.
  • Two heads demonstrating bandaging techniques. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • A surgeon dressing the wound of a grimacing patient. Line engraving by Marinus van der Goes after A. Brouwer.
  • Methods of bandaging a fractured patella. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • A surgeon opening an abcess on the arm of a reclining man who is leaning on the lap of the surgeon's assistant. Colour stipple engraving by S. Mulinari, 1796, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore.
  • A surgeon attending to a man's arm. Lithograph by J. Woelffle after A. Brouwer.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A gloved hand making surgical stitches. Coloured pencil drawing, 19--.
  • A surgeon applying a probe to the arm of a screaming patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • A Flemish surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by J. Daullé after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Four diagrams illustrating heads with severe wounds, demonstrating how to stitch the skin back together properly. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • Advertisment for a thigh splint: two figures, including an illustration showing the splint in place on a bandaged limb. Engraving with etching, 1830/1860?.
  • A surgeon supervising two groups of people pulling in opposite directions in order to cure a man with a shoulder dislocation. Pen drawing.
  • A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Etching by C. Visscher after A. Brouwer.