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Surgical Instruments

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0008197: Various types of speculum

    | Date: October 1941 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/71/29
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

    | Date: 1860-1910 | Reference: 568370i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0005000: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

    | Date: 4 November 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/40/88
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    A catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc. / manufactured and sold by John Weiss & Son.

    John Weiss & Son (London, England) | Date: 1863
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0015871: The blades of two trephination elevators with makers mark

    | Date: 1957 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/142/17
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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