Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

Surgical instruments and apparatusReset filters
511 results
  • Surgical instruments: seven figures. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.
  • A surgeon opening an abcess on the arm of a reclining man who is leaning on the lap of the surgeon's assistant. Colour stipple engraving by S. Mulinari, 1796, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating the liver?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • Surgical instruments: five figures, including forceps. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910?.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving with etching.
  • Surgical instruments for lithotomy operations. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • The cure of Innocentius of Carthage: the prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo and others save Innocentius from painful surgery. Oil painting after Schelte Bolswert.
  • Surgery: Left, surgical instruments to retrieve foreign objects from the oesophagus; right, a bladder with a bladderstone and a hernia. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Surgical instruments and a patient having her breast measured. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
  • Surgical instruments for trepanning, including Mr. Hey's large straight saw. Engraving by Wilson Lowry after J. Farey jun.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly cauterising needles and irons. Drawing with watercolour.
  • An anatomical dissection by Realdus Colombus, attended by onlookers. Collotype after a woodcut, 1559.
  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • The examination of the uterus, the natural posture of a child at birth, an uterus cut open and a chair used for the delivery of children. Engraving with etching.
  • A surgeon performing a lithotomy on a patient who is being restrained by three assistants. Coloured engraving.
  • 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.
  • 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.