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Surgical Instruments

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Medical instruments and apparatus
Surgical technology

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  • Surgical instruments and patients undergoing treatment. Engraving with etching.
  • A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps, made by Isaac Grenier; advertising his goods for sale. Etching by H. Neutte [?], 1698.
  • Surgical instruments for the treatment of hernias. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.
  • Couching instruments. Engraving by Thomas Jefferys.
  • M0014573: Relief tablet of surgical instruments on the wall of Kom Ombo temple, Egypt
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
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    Advice to those who unhappily are took-mad. By Doctor Speculum. Dedicated to honest John Bull

    Speculum | Date: [1790]

Related topics

Surgery, Operative
Surgeons
Trephining
Human anatomy
Patients
Costume
United Kingdom
Apprentices
Excision (Surgery)
Knives

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