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  • Plate 34. Surgical instruments for ligation of arteries.
  • Plate XXV. Resection of the upper jaw.
  • Richardson's ether spray, drop bottles,...
  • Plate XXV, Surgical instruments used for obstetrics.
  • J. Schenck, titlepage, 1609.
  • Photographic portrait of Samuel David Gross.
  • Tourniquets: for compressing the principal arteries in amputations, and for suppressing violent haemorrhages proceeding from accidental wounds.
  • Top, three bandaged heads; centre, a naked surgeon sets the arm of a naked patient both flanked by bandaged women; bottom, bandaged bodies and limbs. Engraving.
  • Plate 15. Surgical instruments (vesciovaginal fistula).
  • A collection of engravings, representing the most modern and approved instruments used in the practice of surgery : With appropriate explanations / By J.H. Savigny, surgeon's instrument-maker.
  • Plate XIII, Surgical instruments used on the tonsils and soft palate.
  • Operation to repair perineal rupture - dog
  • An allegorical figure wearing a large variety of surgical instruments including some on his head and hands. Etching after an engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • The medical quarters of the Melbourne, a ship of the Line: a ward deck, above, and an operating theatre, below. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • A young physician in military uniform applying an instrument to a woman's neck, while an older man with papers in hand is watching him. Drawing by O. Gerlach.
  • Plate 79, Surgical techniques for torticollis and club hand.
  • Plate 77, Dilation of cervix and preforation of membrane.
  • Plate LXX. Surgical technique for lithotomy.
  • Plate 9, Ligature of anterior tibial artery
  • Operation, dog: Balfour abdominal retractor
  • Plate 5, Illustration of lancets and incision points.
  • A collection of engravings, representing the most modern and approved instruments used in the practice of surgery : With appropriate explanations / By J.H. Savigny, surgeon's instrument-maker.
  • Panacea, daughter of Æsculapius, examining a urine flask and surrounded by medical paraphernalia. Engraving by P. Galle (?).
  • Occluded capillary
  • Plate VI, Surgical technique for a scrotal hernia.
  • Two male surgeons operating on a patient.
  • Plate LXXVIII. Surgical techniques to repair club-foot.
  • Lithotomia Douglaffiana
  • An old vagrant's corpse is stuffed with newspaper after being raided for useful organs by two pipe-smoking, wisecracking surgeons. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.