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Hand - Wounds and injuries

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  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • Gaius Mucius Scaevola's ordeal by fire: Gaius Mucius is holding his outstretched arm over the fire blazing in a cauldron before the king, watched by a crowd of soldiers. Etching by J. Goupy, 1726.
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A hand injured by a wooden stick which is also a pole bearing Germanic lettering and a swastika, comparing Germany in wartime to germs. Colour lithograph after H.A. Rothholz.
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    A hand which has suffered a bad wound while in contact with machinery owing to a finger ring which has broken and torn the flesh. Colour lithograph by E. Lukács, 1950.

    Lukács, Endre, 1906-2001. | Date: 1950 | Reference: 663458i
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    A bleeding hand with clenched fingers; advertising a week of accident prevention in Germany, 1934. Colour lithograph after Rinne, 1934.

    Rinne (Designer), active approximately 1928-1937. | Date: 1934 | Reference: 674762i
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    A man writhes in pain after cutting his hand while shaving a piece of wood with a knife; advertising Salveplast wound dressing. Colour lithograph after F. Pedersen, 195-.

    Pedersen, Fritjof Josef, 1923-2018 | Date: [between 1950 and 1959?] | Reference: 667072i
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    A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.

    Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704. | Reference: 44987i
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    An infected hand being raised in salute to a skull, representing the fatal effect of septicaemia. Lithograph after Pat Keely, 1943.

    Keely, Patrick Cokayne (Pat Keely), -1970. | Date: 1943 | Reference: 44448i
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