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Barber Surgeons

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Images from the collections

Images about Barber Surgeons

10 images from works
  • The Nic-nac; or, Literary cabinet. No.158, Saturday, January 7, 1826. Vol. IV. Beards.
  • M0007460: Side view of barber surgeon's chair, c. 1715
  • The Nic-nac; or, Literary cabinet. No.158, Saturday, January 7, 1826. Vol. IV. Beards.
  • M0007461: Front view of barber surgeon's chair, c. 1715
  • The Nic-nac; or, Literary cabinet. No.158, Saturday, January 7, 1826. Vol. IV. Beards.
  • M0013949: A surgeon extracting a tooth
  • The Nic-nac; or, Literary cabinet. No.158, Saturday, January 7, 1826. Vol. IV. Beards.
  • The Nic-nac; or, Literary cabinet. No.158, Saturday, January 7, 1826. Vol. IV. Beards.
  • The Nic-nac; or, Literary cabinet. No.158, Saturday, January 7, 1826. Vol. IV. Beards.
  • Beards takin off. & registurd! / by Isaac Fac-Totum, barber, peri-wig maker, surgeon, parish clark, scool master, blacksmith, and man-midwife.

Works from the collections

69 works

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0013723: A barber surgeon's establishment

    | Date: October 1954 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/123/15
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0013949: A surgeon extracting a tooth

    | Date: 1955 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/125/26
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle : en annexe, 2e supplément au "Dictionnaire" d'Ernest Wickersheimer / Danielle Jacquart.

    Jacquart, Danielle. | Date: 1981
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.160 Surgery #1

    | Date: 1959-2012 | Reference: EPH751:160
    Part of: Gwen Prout Stamp Collection
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0020315: Reconstruction of a 16th century barber surgeon's shop at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at Wigmore Street, 1913

    | Date: September 1985 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/181/64
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Related topics

General Surgery
London
Barbers
Physicians
Interprofessional relations
Faculty, Medical
Paris
16th-17th centuries
History of Dentistry
17th-18th centuries

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