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Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery / by Bransby B. Cooper.
Cooper, Bransby Blake, 1792-1853Date: MDCCCLI. [1851]- Pictures
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War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20894i- Pictures
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Crimean War: French ambulance men carrying the English wounded before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.
Reference: 21041i- Pictures
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A purple heart within an upside-down heart that could also resemble a man's genitals; the heart is pierced by a black spike coming in from the right spilling blood-like fluid; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ouka Lele, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676004i- Books
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A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints / by Sir Astley Cooper.
Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841Date: MDCCCXLII [1842]- Pictures
Operation on a Turkish prisoner of war, in a Royal Naval Military Corps hut in Khiniskalo, Turkey. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 586178i- Pictures
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The risen Christ shows his lance wound to Saint Thomas. Engraving by J. Sturt.
Reference: 23343i- Books
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Ununited fracture successfully treated : with remarks on the operation / By Henry J. Bigelow ... With abstracts from Dr. Bigelow's clinical lectures on the subject, and cases. (Reported by Richard H. Derby.).
Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890Date: 1867- Pictures
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A wounded soldier retiring from battle. Etching by R. Blyth, 1779, after J.H. Mortimer.
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779Date: 15 November 1779Reference: 18598i- Pictures
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Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20136i- Pictures
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A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.
Reference: 27049i- Pictures
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Crimean War: turkish ambulance men collecting the wounded from the battlefield. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20958i- Books
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A manual of surgical treatment / by W. Watson Cheyne and F. F. Burghard.
Cheyne, William Watson, Sir, 1852-1932Date: 1899- Pictures
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A finger-wound being attacked by germs represented by German soldiers in World War II. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1940.
Mendoza, PhilipDate: [1940?]Reference: 680216i- Pictures
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Officers recuperating on board the "Hercules", Hong Kong. Wood engraving after G.W. Cooke (?), 1858.
Cooke, George Wingrove, 1814-1865Date: [1858]Reference: 20720i- Pictures
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Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807Date: 1 March 1780Reference: 18578i- Pictures
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Latin Hospital, Pancaldi near Constantinople: refugee dispensary. Wood engraving.
Reference: 22059i- Books
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Gunshot injuries: their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they are met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore.
Date: 1877- Pictures
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Franco-Prussian War: wounded being treated at Rezonville. Coloured wood engraving by Xylographisches Institut von A. Closs.
Reference: 21805i- Pictures
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Boer War: wounded soldiers arriving at Pretoria train station after Modder Spuit. Watercolour sketch, 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 22526i- Pictures
Crimean War: searching for the wounded after the Battle of the Alma. Line engraving by D.J. Pound after R. Hind.
Hind, R.Reference: 20954i- Pictures
Miss Lane, R.N.R. sister sitting in a ward within the Naval Hospital, Haslar. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 587138i- Pictures
Crystal Palace exhibition of June 1920 on medicine during the First World War. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 586199i- Pictures
Two surgeons treating the same patient, one is removing an arrow from his chest whilst the other is boring a hole into the patient's knee accompanied by two assistants and an onlooker. Pen drawing by ZS.
S., Z.Reference: 22467i- Pictures
Royal Naval personnel loading patients into tram, Haslar, Portsmouth. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 587119i