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  • Two specula for dilating the womb and administering treatments for ulcers. Woodcut, 1560/1600.
  • Clubfoot and the operation to cure the condition. Coloured lithograph by N.H. Jacob.
  • Two surgeons treating the same patient, one is removing an arrow from his chest whilst the other is boring a hole into the patient's knee accompanied by two assistants and an onlooker. Pen drawing by ZS.
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
  • A periscope being used above an operation which is projected onto a lantern screen for a lecture in the adjoining room. Gouache painting by W.R. Seton.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by J. Brown.
  • Cross-sections of the arm and wrist. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • Above, a speculum; below, spheres. Engraving with etching by T. Jefferys.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.
  • 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.
  • M0015806: Lithotomy table, 1768
  • An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • 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.
  • A surgeon performing a lithotomy on a patient who is being restrained by three assistants, with five other anatomical illustrations. Engraving by F. Sesoni, 1749, after L. Heister.
  • A surgeon bleeding a man's head, he is aided by two assistants, a woman (the patient's wife ?) appears anxious. Engraving, 1586.
  • Three diagrams illustrating how to bleed an arm. Stipple engraving.
  • Three pairs of surgical forceps, used to remove foreign bodies. Woodcut, 1560/1600.
  • Anatomical instruments on a table used for vivisection. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly cannulae. Drawing with watercolour.
  • Surgical chair. Engraving with etching.
  • M0017184: Illustration of Richardson's ether spray and drop bottles
  • Surgical instrument for extracting objects lodged in the throat: four figures. Etching by H. Mutlow, ca. 1805.
  • Ancient Roman (?) bronze surgical instruments: ten figures. Etching by P. Amendola after V. Mollame, 18--?.
  • M0007748: Hot box used by Joseph Lister
  • A dissection in progress: the anatomy professor at his lectern. Line block after a drawing after a woodcut, 1493.
  • A surgeon bleeding a man's arm, he is observed by an older surgeon and aided by an assistant. Engraving, 1586.
  • Surgical instruments: tourniquets and amputating instruments. Engraving by Wilson Lowry, 1803.