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Bandages

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First Aid
Surgery, Minor

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Images from the collections

Images about Bandages

183 images from works
  • A man applying a plaster to his hand outside in a rural setting; representing the sense of touch. Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1736, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • M0007820: Hernia and scrotal dressing, from Cheyne: <i>Antiseptic Surgery</i> (1882)
  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • Sthenelos bandaging the wounded finger of Diomedes. Ink drawing by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after a Chalcidian neck-amphora c. 550 B.C.
  • M0007813: Dressing for abscess with drainage tube, from Cheyne: <i>Antiseptic Surgery</i> (1882)
  • Franco-Prussian War: a nurse treating wounded servians in an Usicza hospital. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
  • Triangular bandage for the shoulder / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • M0007814: Abscess dressing from behind, from Cheyne: <i>Antiseptic Surgery</i> (1882) / M0007815: Lumbar abscess dressing from behind, from Cheyne: <i>Antiseptic Surgery</i> (1882)
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).

Works from the collections

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    Les bandages l'orthopédie et les appareils à pansements : description iconographique / par Léon et Jules Rainal frères.

    | Date: 1885
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    The good Samaritan seeing to a man's wounds while a priest and Levite walk into the distance. Etching by W. Unger after F.G. Bassano the younger.

    Bassano, Francesco da Ponte, 1549-1592. | Reference: 17897i
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    Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

    Waugh, J. J. | Reference: 22131i
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    A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman.

    Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874. | Date: 1832
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    Specification of Alfred Ford : fomenting pad.

    Ford, Alfred. | Date: 1870
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Minor Surgical Procedures
Wounds and Injuries
Soldiers
First Aid
Costume
Patients
Surgeons
Nurses
Military uniforms

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