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Surgical Instruments

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Medical instruments and apparatus
Surgical technology

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Images from the collections

Images about Surgical Instruments

650 images from works
  • Surgical instruments and patients undergoing treatment. Engraving with etching.
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps, made by Isaac Grenier; advertising his goods for sale. Etching by H. Neutte [?], 1698.
  • Surgical instruments for the treatment of hernias. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.
  • Couching instruments. Engraving by Thomas Jefferys.
  • M0014573: Relief tablet of surgical instruments on the wall of Kom Ombo temple, Egypt
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.

Works from the collections

1,679 works

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0008197: Various types of speculum

    | Date: October 1941 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/71/29
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

    | Date: 1860-1910 | Reference: 568370i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0017675: Illustration of apparatus for preventing haemorrhage after delivery by Chassagny

    | Date: November 1959 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/158/39
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0005000: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

    | Date: 4 November 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/40/88
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    A catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc. / manufactured and sold by John Weiss & Son.

    John Weiss & Son (London, England) | Date: 1863

Related topics

Surgery, Operative
Surgeons
Trephining
Human anatomy
Patients
Costume
United Kingdom
Apprentices
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Excision (Surgery)

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