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Charing Cross Hospital: Stanley Boyd in the old operating theatre. Photograph, 1900.

Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.

A surgical operation. Oil painting by or in the style of Jan Josef Horemans I.

A surgical operation: total knee replacement. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1997.

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving after D. Teniers.

A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.

An ophthalmic surgeon operates on the eye of a patient who is strapped to a chair. Line engraving.

An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving.

An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), they are surrounded by a group of people. Pencil drawing by P. Quast, 1645.

A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Mezzotint by J. van der Bruggen after D. Teniers.

"Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.

Operation on a Turkish prisoner of war, in a Royal Naval Military Corps hut in Khiniskalo, Turkey. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Jan Schoemaker performing a surgical operation, 1922. Photograph by P. van Tol.

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A surgeon performing a suprapubic lithotomy on a boy. Lithograph by R. Lemoine, 1899.

A malicious itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient's head; symbolising the extraction of 'folly' (insanity). Mezzotint by J. van der Bruggen after D. Teniers.

"Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.

Operation on a Turkish prisoner of war, in a Royal Naval Military Corps hut in Khiniskalo, Turkey. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Jan Schoemaker performing a surgical operation, 1922. Photograph by P. van Tol.