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Bandages

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First Aid
Surgery, Minor

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Images from the collections

Images about Bandages

154 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Franco-Prussian War: French wounded being treated at Metz. Wood engraving by J.W.B.
  • 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.
  • Five kinds of treatment in hospitals and elsewhere. Wood engraving, 1881.
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Works from the collections

572 works

    • Ephemera

    Maw's waterproof court plaster : which does not wash off / S. Maw, Son & Sons.

    | Date: [between 1901 and 1918]
    • Ephemera

    Handi emergency aid advisor : how to use / Handi-shop.

    | Date: [between 1963 and 1979?]
    • Books
    • Online

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

    | Date: 1885
    • Ephemera

    Bandaging diagrams : a companion folder to "first aid in few words" and "home nursing in few words" / J. M. Carvell, M.R.C.S. L.S.A.Lond.

    | Date: [1922?]
    • Ephemera

    Bandaging diagrams : a companion folder to "first aid in few words" and "home nursing in few words" / J. M. Carvell, M.R.C.S. L.S.A.Lond.

    | Date: [between 1925 and 1935?]
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Related topics

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

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