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  • The operative treatment of intra-thoracic effusion / by Norman Porritt.

    • Porritt, Norman, 1858-
    Date
    [1883?]
    • Books
    • Online
  • Surgical anatomy / by Joseph Maclise.

    • Maclise, Joseph.
    Date
    1859
    • Books
    • Online
  • Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

    • Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841.
    Date
    1822
    • Books
    • Online
  • Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Chirurgie : nach dem heutigen Standpunkte der Wissenschaft.

    • Fischer, Hermann Eberhard, 1831-1919.
    Date
    1887
    • Books
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  • Précis iconographique de médecine opératoire et d'anatomie chirurgicale / par Cl. Bernard et Ch. Huette (de Montargis).

    • Bernard, Claude, 1813-1878.
    Date
    1856
    • Books
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  • A manual of operative surgery / By Lewis A. Stimson.

    • Stimson, Lewis Atterbury, 1844-1917.
    Date
    1885
    • Books
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  • Elements of surgery / by Robert Liston.

    • Liston, Robert, 1794-1847.
    Date
    1831
    • Books
    • Online
  • The circumcision of Christ. Plaster sculpture.

    Reference
    4528i
    • 3-D Objects
  • A surgeon lancing a grimacing man's shoulder. Engraving by J. Coelemans, 1703, after D. Teniers, the younger, 1678.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    [17--]
    Reference
    22498i
    Part of
    Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France, qui sont à Aix dans le cabinet de M. Boyer d'Aguilles
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Two surgeons performing an operation; a nurse at their side. Etching by John Copley, 1948.

    • Copley, John, 1875-1950.
    Date
    1948
    Reference
    576639i
    • Pictures
  • Traité de chirurgie d'urgence / par Félix Lejars.

    • Lejars, Félix, 1863-1932.
    Date
    1899
    • Books
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  • A system of surgery / by Charles B. Ball [and others] ; edited by Frederick Treves.

    • Treves, Frederick, 1853-1923.
    Date
    1896-1898
    • Books
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  • 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.

    • Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712.
    Reference
    22554i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The human bladder: two figures showing growths in which bladder stones may be found; with instruments for puncturing the bladder, and a bladder stone (fig. 6, lower left). Etching by J. Mynde, 1743, after L. Heister.

    • Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758.
    Date
    [MDCCXLIII [1743]]
    Reference
    2823234i
    • Pictures
  • Asepsis and antisepsis in abdominal surgery and gynaecology : for guidance in medical homes and private practice. / By H. MacNaughton-Jones.

    • MacNaughton-Jones, H. (Henry), 1844-1918.
    Date
    1898
    • Books
    • Online
  • Chirurgische Technik / von Friedrich von Esmarch und Ernst Kowalzig.

    • Esmarch, Friedrich von, 1823-1908.
    Date
    1893-1894
    • Books
    • Online
  • Schlemm's Operations-Uebungen am Cadaver dargestellt und als Leitfaden für dieselben bearbeitet / von Fr. Ravoth.

    • Ravoth, Fr., 1816-1878.
    Date
    1845
    • Books
    • Online
  • Six cross-sections through a foot. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.

    • Léveillé, J. B. F. (Jean Baptiste François), 1769-1829.
    Date
    1875
    Reference
    23252i
    • Pictures
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  • Modern surgery : general and operative / by John Chalmers Da Costa.

    • Da Costa, J. Chalmers (John Chalmers), 1863-1933.
    Date
    1907
    • Books
    • Online
  • The operations of surgery : a systematic handbook for practitioners, students and hospital surgeons.

    • Jacobson, W. H. A.
    Date
    1889
    • Books
    • Online
  • Étude comparative des diverses méthodes de l'exérèse : thèse présentée au concours pour l'agrégation (section de chirurgie) / par Ch. Monod.

    • Monod, Charles, 1843-1921.
    Date
    1875
    • Books
    • Online
  • Emergency surgery, for the general practitioner.

    • Sluss, John W. (John William), 1867-
    Date
    1910
    • Books
    • Online
  • De spinae dorsi distorsionibus et pede equino disquisito pathologico-therapeutica, adjecta novarum machinarum a viro celeberrimo Langenbeck inventarum descriptione : Dissertatio inauguralis, quam gratiosi medicorum ordinis auctoritate atque consensu in Academia Georgia Augusta pro summis in Medicina, Chirurgia atque Obstetrica honoribus rite obtinendis die XII. mens. Septembris anno MDCCCXXIX publice defendet. / Auctor Georgius Carolus Mühry ... Cum tabulis aeneis.

    • Mühry, Georg Karl, 1806-1840.
    Date
    [1829]
    • Books
    • Online
  • Nouveaux éléments de médecine opératoire / par Alf. A.-L.-M. Velpeau; accompagnés d'un atlas de 20 planches in 4o gravées, représentant les principaux procédés opératoires et un grand nombre d'instruments de chirurgie.

    • Velpeau, A. A.-L.-M. (Alfred Armand Louis Marie), 1795-1867.
    Date
    1832
    • Books
    • Online
  • A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.

    • Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.
    Reference
    22470i
    • Pictures
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