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  • A queen or empress administering a healing balm to a person with leprosy (?). Photograph of a wallpainting in the chapel in Eton College.
  • A man with a wooden leg collecting brushwood in a wicker basket slung over his shoulder. Pen and wash drawing.
  • Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.
  • A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.
  • A physician giving a medicine to a sick man in bed, and a surgeon, supervised by a physician, amputating the leg of seated patient, representing pharmacy and surgery respectively. Engraving, 1646.
  • 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.
  • Two old men in conversation: the man on the left holding a basket has a wooden leg, the other one leans with both hands on a stick. Watercolour by S.G. (?).
  • An old man with a wooden leg, probably a former soldier, marches with a shouldered broomstick to the drum beaten by a child behind him. Lithograph by T. Farlow after R. Farrier.
  • 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.
  • Two sailors with amputated legs, an eyepatch and an amputated arm moving with the aid of crutches. Etching by S.B., 1783.
  • Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.
  • 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 dressing the stump of a patient's recently amputated leg. Engraving, 1738.
  • Royal Hospital Haslar: a soldier on crutches with an amputated leg, wounded after the Battle of the Alma. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Saint Eligius: he reshoes the hoof of a horse by amputating the hock, shoeing the hoof, and reattaching the limb. Line engraving by "il Buono" (Floriano Dal Buono?).
  • Three men help a sailor of their acquaintance who has slipped and broken his wooden leg by calling on a passing carpenter for help. Coloured engraving with etching.
  • A pregnant woman leading a donkey on which a discharged veteran, who has lost both his legs, is sitting carrying one of their children in a bucket. Etching with engraving by J. Caldwell after J. Collet, 1775.
  • An old beggar with a wooden leg moves with the aid of two crutches and holds his hat in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A surgeon performing an amputation of the leg in the seventeenth century. Oil painting, 18-- (?).
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.
  • Amputations of arm and leg with diagrams to illustrate how to perform the operations. Engraving by F. Sesoni, 1749.
  • A one-legged hurdy gurdy player dressed in rags with his companion, an old woman dressed in rags reading from a song sheet. Engraving with etching by J. Matham after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne.
  • Two surgeons amputating the leg and arm of the same patient who is being restrained by assistants. Pen drawing after an engraving, 1597.
  • A "theatre" of medicine and surgery. Watercolour by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, ca. 1800.
  • A surgeon apologetically takes a breather during an amputation operation: a bottle of champagne waits in a cooler; a doctor and nurse canoodle while the patient screams. Colour process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • An operating room in a surgery: three patients are undergoing operations. Pen drawing by Z.S. after an engraving, 1690.
  • A one-legged man in rags moving with the aid of crutches is accompanied by a child with a bandaged arm. Gouache on vellum.
  • A legless man sitting on a wooden cart, presumably begging for alms, is surrounded by two dogs. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Ambroise Paré using a ligature on an artery of an amputated leg of a soldier, during the Siege of Metz, 1553. Photogravure after T. Chartran, 1889.