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Surgical instruments and patients undergoing treatment. Engraving with etching.

A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.

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.

Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps, made by Isaac Grenier; advertising his goods for sale. Etching by H. Neutte [?], 1698.

Surgical instruments for the treatment of hernias. Engraving by E. Mitchell.

Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.

Couching instruments. Engraving by Thomas Jefferys.

Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.

M0008197: Various types of speculum

M0005000: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle-Walsingham, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

M0008204: Rectal speculum, 17th century

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M0008197: Various types of speculum

Surgical instruments. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.

M0005000: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

A surgeon treating the foot of a male patient. Coloured pencil drawing by C. Boyle-Walsingham, 1762, after A. Brouwer.

M0008204: Rectal speculum, 17th century