Facility within a hospital where surgical operations are carried out

Hornsey Cottage Hospital, Crouch End: nurses in the operating theatre. Process print, ca. 1915.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

The operating theatre of Otto Lanz, Amsterdam. Photograph.

Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre. Photograph, ca. 1909.

Hôpital Ophtalmologique A. de Rothschild, Paris:  entrance at the intersection of Rue Manin and Rue Priestley, and operating theatre. Process print, 1913.

Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre and equipment. Photograph, ca. 1909.

Opening ceremony for a new operating theatre at the London Hospital. Drawing by G.K. Jones, 1892.

Animals dressed as doctors are about to vivisect a man in an operating theatre or anatomy theatre. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.

Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.

University College Hospital: medical staff in an operating theatre which has stairs leading up on either side. Photograph.

Boer War: the operating theatre of a hospital ship in which stands a naval man. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.

The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 20.7 x 27.3 cm

22 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map ; 25 cm

The operating theatre of old St. Thomas's Hospital.

Efficiency of theatre services.

Planning of surgical centers : basic studies / ERvin Pütsep.

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Operating Rooms

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Images about Operating Rooms

Works from the collections

The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler.

Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre. Photograph, ca. 1909.

The operating theatre of old St. Thomas's Hospital.

Efficiency of theatre services.

Planning of surgical centers : basic studies / ERvin Pütsep.

Operating Rooms

Images from the collections

Images about Operating Rooms

Works from the collections

The operating room and the patient / by Russell S. Fowler.

Wotton Lodge, Gloucester: operating theatre. Photograph, ca. 1909.

The operating theatre of old St. Thomas's Hospital.

Efficiency of theatre services.

Planning of surgical centers : basic studies / ERvin Pütsep.

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