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Operations, Surgical

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  • Charing Cross Hospital: Stanley Boyd in the old operating theatre. Photograph, 1900.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting by or in the style of Jan Josef Horemans I.
  • Operating theatre reception: one of the assistants sitting at a computer, with a chart of operations behind. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1995.
  • A surgical operation: total knee replacement. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1997.
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Catalogue

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    A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.

    Lemoine, Raoul E., 1853- | Date: 1899 | Reference: 23476i
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    A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Mezzotint by J. van der Bruggen after D. Teniers.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 21118i
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    "Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.

    Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944. | Date: [1915], ©1915
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    Operation on a Turkish prisoner of war, in a Royal Naval Military Corps hut in Khiniskalo, Turkey. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

    | Date: [1919] | Reference: 586178i
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    Jan Schoemaker performing a surgical operation, 1922. Photograph by P. van Tol.

    Tol, P. van. | Date: 1922 | Reference: 111i
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