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A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.

Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.

Antoine, Baron Dubois, in Alexandria. Lithograph by Watier, 1823, after L. Gudin, 1822.

Battle of Ulundi, part of the Zulu War, South Africa: with a numbered key. Wood engraving.

The surgeon Capiomont stitching the ear of general Oudinot at the battle of Wagram, 1809. Watercolour by F. Pils.

World War I: a French underground hospital at Verdun. Oil painting by Ugo Matania, 1917.

Bloodletting, 16th Century

Reduction of of dislocated leg, 16th Century

Reduction of dislocated arm, 16th Century

The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay / by Friedrich Esmarch ; translated by H.H. Clutton.

M0010398EB: Surgical instruments for the use in military surgery, from Clowes: <i>A profitable and necessarie booke of observations</i>, 1637

Der Gypsverband : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Militair-Chirurgie / von Dr. Szymanowski.

Outlines of military surgery / by Sir George Ballingall.

Military surgery, or, Experience of field practice in India during the years 1848 and 1849 / by J.J. Cole.

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The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay / by Friedrich Esmarch ; translated by H.H. Clutton.

M0010398EB: Surgical instruments for the use in military surgery, from Clowes: A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, 1637

Der Gypsverband : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Militair-Chirurgie / von Dr. Szymanowski.

Outlines of military surgery / by Sir George Ballingall.

Military surgery, or, Experience of field practice in India during the years 1848 and 1849 / by J.J. Cole.