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Surgeons - History

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Images about Surgeons - History

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  • A lady fainting after bloodletting. Oil painting after Eglon Hendrick van der Neer.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a male patient's leg, he is observed by an older physician and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • A surgeon performing a paracentesis on an obese man, whose swollen abdomen has a cannula inserted into it, and is subsequently releasing fluid into a basin. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1672.
  • A surgeon about to bleed a man's arm, he is aided by an older surgeon and an assistant, a woman (the patient's wife ?) is present. Engraving, 1586.
  • 1972 : Happy new year = Glückliches Neujahr = Bonne nouvelle année : [calendar] / [edited by Lajos Vörösházy ; contributor József Antall].
  • 1972 : Happy new year = Glückliches Neujahr = Bonne nouvelle année : [calendar] / [edited by Lajos Vörösházy ; contributor József Antall].
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
  • 1972 : Happy new year = Glückliches Neujahr = Bonne nouvelle année : [calendar] / [edited by Lajos Vörösházy ; contributor József Antall].
  • A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.
  • 1972 : Happy new year = Glückliches Neujahr = Bonne nouvelle année : [calendar] / [edited by Lajos Vörösházy ; contributor József Antall].
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Works from the collections

93 works

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    Les médecins, astrologues, chirurgiens et lettrés à Paris pendant la guerre de cent ans : d'après la chronique de Guillebert de Mets / A. de Mets.

    | Mets, A. de | Date: 1934
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    Arigo : surgeon of the rusty knife / John G. Fuller ; afterword by Henry K. Puharich.

    | John G. Fuller | Date: 1975
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    A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle-Walsingham, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

    | Adriaen Brouwer | Date: 1762 | Reference: 22618i
    • Books

    Contribution à l'histoire des rapports entre chirurgiens et apothicaires, en France, avant la loi de Germinal.

    | Mathieu, Claudie. | Date: 1951
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    Izvivy pami︠a︡ti : vrachebnoe svidetelʹstvo / I︠U︡liĭ Krelin.

    | Julij Krelin | Date: 2003
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Related topics

General Surgery
Physicians
Surgical Instruments
Costume - History
Patients
Netherlands
17th century
Apprentices
France
Bloodletting

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