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Operating room personnel

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  • Operating theatre reception: one of the assistants sitting at a computer, with a chart of operations behind. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1995.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.
  • University College Hospital: medical staff in an operating theatre which has stairs leading up on either side. Photograph.
  • A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
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    Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.

    Koekkoek, Hermanus Willem, 1867-1929. | Date: 17 April 1909 | Reference: 23548i
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    A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

    Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965. | Date: 1916 | Reference: 24108i
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    Two Indian doctors with a British doctor and a British nurse in the operating theatre of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Photographic postcard by A.H. Fry, ca. 1915.

    Fry, A. H. (Allen Hastings), 1847-1931. | Date: [1915?] | Reference: 569464i
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    University College Hospital: medical staff in an operating theatre which has stairs leading up on either side. Photograph.

    | Reference: 36986i
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    World War Two: a surgical operation being performed under primitive conditions in a hospital camp. Coloured pen and ink drawing by L. Rawlings, 1946.

    Rawlings, Leo, -1990. | Date: 1946 | Reference: 24135i
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