A surgeon is about to implant mechanical intestines in a patient in an operating theatre attended by a crowd of onlookers. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.

A letter to the medical profession of Van Diemen's Land : accompanied by the particulars of an operation for strangulated congenital hernia, &c. &c. / by W.R. Pugh.

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