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Therapeutics, Surgical

Images

  • A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • Surgical instruments used, and operations successfully carried out, by an English travelling operator claiming royal patronage. Line engraving, 16--.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon dressing the wound of a grimacing patient. Line engraving by Marinus van der Goes after A. Brouwer.
  • A surgeon opening an abcess on the arm of a reclining man who is leaning on the lap of the surgeon's assistant. Colour stipple engraving by S. Mulinari, 1796, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating the liver?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon attending to a man's arm. Lithograph by J. Woelffle after A. Brouwer.
  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
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Catalogue

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    A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Reference: 22594i
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    Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.

    | Reference: 22307i
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    A surgeon lancing a grimacing man's shoulder. Engraving by J. Coelemans, 1703, after D. Teniers, the younger, 1678.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 22498i
    Part of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France, qui sont à Aix dans le cabinet de M. Boyer d'Aguilles
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    Surgical pathology and therapeutics / by John Collins Warren.

    Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927. | Date: 1895
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    A surgeon dressing the wound of a grimacing patient. Lithograph by N. Strixner after A. Brouwer.

    Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638. | Reference: 22502i
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