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  • Two kinds of anal fistulas, instruments recommended by Rungius (surgeon in Bremen) to cure anal fistulas and various probes and needles for the treatment Engraving with etching.
  • M0007766: Fixation forceps used by Joseph Lister
  • An anatomist, "Mr Le Professeur C...", dissecting a cadaver laid out on a trestle table, while a seated man looks on. Etching by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1869.
  • M0008369: Two tourniquets, 16th century
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Left, forceps to cut out circular pieces of bone; right, tables of measures. Engraving with etching.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly cautery irons. Drawing with watercolour.
  • A surgeon amputating a grimacing patient's leg who is being held in a particular position by two attendants, the operation is near completion. Engraving, 1738.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by Andrew Bell.
  • Christ being circumcised in the temple. Engraving by G. Massi after F. Barocci.
  • Hernias and surgical instruments for their treatment. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
  • A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.
  • Surgery: top, a rectum with a fistula; below, a number of bandages. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Surgical instruments and patients undergoing treatment (trepanation). Engraving with etching.
  • Surgical instruments: seven figures. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.
  • 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 barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • 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.
  • Surgical instruments: five figures, including forceps. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving with etching.
  • Surgical instruments for lithotomy operations. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Surgery: Left, surgical instruments to retrieve foreign objects from the oesophagus; right, a bladder with a bladderstone and a hernia. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Surgical instruments and a patient having her breast measured. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
  • M0007609: Illustration of medieval surgical instruments from <i>Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung...</i>
  • Surgical instruments for trepanning, including Mr. Hey's large straight saw. Engraving by Wilson Lowry after J. Farey jun.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly cauterising needles and irons. Drawing with watercolour.
  • An anatomical dissection by Realdus Colombus, attended by onlookers. Collotype after a woodcut, 1559.
  • 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.
  • The examination of the uterus, the natural posture of a child at birth, an uterus cut open and a chair used for the delivery of children. Engraving with etching.
  • A surgeon performing a lithotomy on a patient who is being restrained by three assistants. Coloured engraving.