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Operating Rooms

Part of
Hospital buildings
Rooms
Surgical clinics

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Images from the collections

Images about Operating Rooms

20 images from works
  • 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.
  • 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.

Works from the collections

68 works

    • Books
    • Online

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

    Fowler, Russell S. (Russell Story), 1874-1959. | Date: 1906
    • Pictures

    University College Hospital, London: railings from the operating theatre re-erected in a garden. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 662483i
    • Pictures
    • Online

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

    | Date: [1909?] | Reference: 665486i
    • Books

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

    | Date: [1971]
    • Books

    Efficiency of theatre services.

    | Date: 1989
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Related topics

Surgeons
Hospitals
London
General Surgery
Hospital Design and Construction
Operating room personnel
Wotton Lodge (Gloucester, England)
Surgery, Operative
Perioperative Nursing
Surgical Equipment

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