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  • Ambroise Paré using the ligature when amputating at the siege of Damvillers, 1552. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45900i
    • Pictures
  • Patrick Manson experimenting with filaria sanguinis-hominis in Amoy (Xiamen), China. Oil painting by E. Board, ca. 1912.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Date
    1912
    Reference
    2087i
    • Pictures
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Date
    1909
    Reference
    45905i
    • Pictures
  • Roger Bacon in his observatory at Merton College, Oxford. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45919i
    • Pictures
  • Albucasis blistering a patient in the hospital at Cordova. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45909i
    • Pictures
  • Vaccination: "Dr Jenner performing his first vaccination, 1796". Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45906i
    • Pictures
  • Anglo-Saxon surgery. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    538271i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • World War I: a Scottish soldier, wearing the kilt, lying wounded on a battlefield. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1916/1918.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Date
    1916-1918
    Reference
    583938i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Mundinus, the Italian anatomist, making his first dissection in the anatomy theatre at Bologna, 1318. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45917i
    • Pictures
  • An invocation to I-em-hetep, the Egyptian deity of medicine. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45913i
    • Pictures
  • Guy de Chauliac bandaging the leg of Pope Clement VI at Avignon, while Petrarch, his enemy, jealous of his influence, watches him, ca. 1348. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45912i
    • Pictures
  • William Harvey demonstrating his theory of circulation of blood before Charles I. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45902i
    • Pictures
  • Lavoisier explaining to his wife the result of his experiments on air. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45915i
    • Pictures
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Date
    1900-1999
    Reference
    45904i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The Abbaye of Saint Antoine, the Sologne, France. Pilgrims suffering from ergotism (St Antony's fire) approaching the infirmary in which the relics and bones of the saint are preserved which were believed to cure the disease. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45910i
    • Pictures
  • Rhazes (Rāzī), Persian physician and alchemist, in his laboratory at Baghdad. Oil painting by Ernest Board, ca. 1912.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Date
    1912
    Reference
    45898i
    • Pictures
  • Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45899i
    • Pictures
  • A surgeon anaesthetising one of his patients, spectators in the background. Watercolour attributed to Ernest Board, ca. 1912.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Date
    [1912?]
    Reference
    566791i
    • Pictures
  • The discovery of quinine, 1820. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 191-.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Date
    1910-1919
    Reference
    45907i
    • Pictures
  • Albertus Magnus expounding his doctrines of physical science in the streets of Paris ca. 1245. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45916i
    • Pictures
  • The healing art in pre-historic times. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45914i
    • Pictures
  • Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

    • Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
    Reference
    45911i
    • Pictures
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