Surgery Collection

Cause & Effect - dentist cartoon by H. M. Bateman
Cause and Effect - or, how two moods can change places

Nurses Watch Surgery
Nurses watch a surgical demonstration from a balcony

A mobile dental surgery, belonging to the French army
A French motor lorry has been converted to make a dentist laboratory, to care for the teeth of the soldiers. The adjustable seat can just be seen

Medical / Amputation / Arm
Sawing off an arm

Operating Table 1930S
A group of student nurses in theatre, observing a surgeon performing an operation

Medical / Amputation / Leg
Sawing off a leg

Testicle Growth Drained
Removing fluid from a large testicular growth

Castration 17th Century
A fearful patient is restrained on a low couch and castrated

Trepanner on the Job
The trepanner at work with his trepan

Artificial hand of Goetz von Berlichingen
Prosthethic hand and arm of Gottfried (Goetz) von Berlichingen (1480 1562), also known as Goetz of the Iron Hand, a German Imperial Knight and mercenary. Date: 1868

Sister and patient, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
A nursing sister and her patient in the surgery of the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex

Cartoon - WWI - Haircut
A cartoon making light of the perils of life on the front line and the frequent need for surgical intervention to operate on soldiers

Florence Nightingales carriage at the seat of war
Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre

Surgical Instruments / C18
Variety of surgical instruments

Barber-Surgeon at Work
A barber-surgeon treating a patient

Operation / Paris
Eminent surgeon Dr Doyen performs an operation at the Maison de Sante, Paris, watched by students and colleagues

Operation / Charing X
An operation at Charing Cross Hospital, London, watched by students and colleagues

Medical / Surgery / Amputati
Amputation of leg

Surgery. Ausculation and examination of patient. Illustration from 13th century. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Marks Library)

X-Ray, radium, surgery - the three recognized treatments for cancer Consult your doctor or health bureau. Poster promoting diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Date between 1936 and 1939

Before and after images of cosmetic surgery
Examples of cosmetic surgery carried out in Paris. The procedure was carried out under a local anaesthetic, typically cocaine

Vesalius Demonstrates
Vesalius demonstrating

Rhinoplasty / C16Th
Rhinoplasty: nose correction

16Thc Dentist
A barber surgeon treats a patient in the open air

Lister / Begg / Iln
JOSEPH LISTER English surgeon, medical scientist and founder of antiseptic surgery

Setting a Bone 1682
Surgeons setting a bone, with the help of Michaults bone- setting apparatus

Operation / Lister Spray
Operation with Listers antiseptic spray in use

Doctor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, 1580s
Costume of a Doctor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris, 1580s. In black cap, mantle with fur capelet over the shoulders, gown and hose

Aneurysmal tumor on the forehead of a young man, 1815. The tumor had been growing for seven years before it was cut out from Mr R---n, a 25-year-old man. Aneurism of the Forehead, Mr. R

Fatal aneurysmal sac from the broken leg of a man, 1815. The sailor died of gangrene before the leg could be amputated. Drawing of Mr. Harkness's case of aneurism

Claude Pouteau's doctrine of tying nerves to arteries in amputat
Example of Claude Pouteau's doctrine of tying nerves to arteries in amputations. Drawing of nerves imprudently tied in along with the Femoral Artery in Amputation

A ship's boy with a case of necrotizing fasciitis
A boy with a huge sore wasting away the skin and muscle of the thigh

Soldier with an abscess from a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Sergeant M'Gillivray of the 68th (Durham) Regiment was shot in the shoulder in the Siege of Nijmegen, 1794

Abscess from a gunshot wound in the forearm, 1815
Abscess in a sailor's forearm from a musket-ball wound in a naval battle, 1815

Aneurysmal tumor on the face of a young boy N, 1815. The tumor had been growing for five years before it was operated on unsuccessfully. The boy at age 10 with the engorged aneurysm still growing

Louis de Wecker (1832-1906). French ophthalmologist. Portrait. Illustration by Badillo. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Etching of Harley Street, in Marylebone, Central London, the street is famed for being well populated in specialists of Medicine and surgery. Named after Thomas Harley, Lord Mayor of London in 1767

St Bartholomews Hospital, London - An operating Theatre
St Bartholomews Hospital, Farringdon, City of London - An operating Theatre. Date: circa 1907

Eye surgery, 18th century
Lacrimal gland conditions 1, 2, bandages for lacrimal gland swelling 3, and cataract surgery 4, 5, 18th century

St Bartholomews Hospital, London - Surgery Waiting Hall
St Bartholomews Hospital, Farringdon, City of London - Surgery Waiting Hall. Date: circa 1907

Comic postcard, Pretty young woman and doctor - split personality Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor and patient - two types of pain Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman and doctor - free under the NHS? Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Women at doctor's surgery Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman and doctor - good news, bad news. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman and doctor Date: 20th century

Dentists Surgery Date: circa 1900s

Dentist's Surgery early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Joseph Lister, taken in the late 1860s. Date: late 1860s

Dr Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe, French surgeon
Dr Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe (1799-1867), French surgeon Date: circa 1850s

surgical operation, Paris Date: 1925

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, originally a private enterprise with women teachers, closed to men. Date: 1907

Lea Hurst, home of Florence Nightingale
Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father

Florence Nightingale's carriage
The nursing carriage that accompanied Miss Florence Nightingale through the Crimean War. Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father

Interior of a new mobil van to treat toothaches and trench-gum, for the trenches, costing of £900 by the Civil Service Federation. Date: 1916

A new mobil van, to treat toothaches and trench-gum, for the trenches, costing of £900 by the Civil Service Federation. Date: 1916

Comic postcard, Doctor and patient Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor and Scottish patient Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor and nurse, operating theatre Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor and patient - with a reference to the newly introduced heavier brass threepenny coin (the older, silver ones were lighter and smaller) Date: circa late 1930s

Comic postcard, Woman at the dentists Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, Middle-aged woman and doctor - I ll come back when you re sober! Date: 20th century

Tatler Weddings and Engagements page, featuring Miss Kathleen Greenwood, Captain M E Dennis and Miss Joan Graham and Miss Muriel Stevenson Woodrow 1930

Bas-relief of a gardener on the wall of Mr. Holylands stables, Gardiners Lane. Man in doublet and breeches holding a spade, dated 1670

Barber Surgeons Hall, Monkwell Street, London
Barber Surgeons Hall, Monkwell Street, from the church yard of St. Giles, Cripplegate

Sir Johann VI Hans von Kronberg and his wife Katharina
Sir Johann VI Hans von Kronberg (died 1488) and his wife Katharina von Reifenberg. From the grave effigy in St. Johann Church, Kronberg im Taunus, Hessen Germany

Women queuing with their dogs for RSPCA advice, Sept 1939
A group of women queuing with their dogs for advice on pet safety from two RSPCA doctors

18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petits screw-type
18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petits screw tourniquet for compressing blood vessels: tourniquet device 1, double band to adjust the tourniquet 2, compress in chamois leather 3 and ball bearing 4

When All the World is Young - The Elixir of Youth
Putting back the clock, some Voronoff possibilities of the future. Satirical cartoon by Will Owen lampooning the claims of transplant pioneer Dr

New Operating Theatre, The London Hospital. 1902

Pediatric Surgery Date: 1938

Team of Surgeons Date: 1948

Surgical Operation

Group at Surgery Date: 1875

Surgeon preparing new skin in graft surgery
Surgeon and two nurses in operating theatre, preparing new skin for graft surgery. Date: 1946

Skin-graft surgery preparation
Theatre nursing staff prepare the patient for a skin-graft operation. Date: 1946

Nurses preparing for surgery
Two nurses in operating theatre. One nurse is helping the other into surgical garments. An operating table is visible in the foreground, with a large hanging light overhead. Date: circa 1930

Nurses assisting doctor during surgery
Two nurses and doctor over patient on operating table Date: circa 1930

Gibbs Happy Families - Mr Tooth the Dentist. Date: 20th century

Interior of a mobile French dental laboratory 1916
The modern interior of a French army dental surgery. The drill can be seen along with the other surgical equipment used in oral hygiene. Date: 1916

SURGERY CURES INFIDELITY
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: infidelity cured by replacing much-pierced heart Date: 1847

SURGERY CURES STUPIDITY
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain! Date: 1847

Surgery cures ugliness 1847
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young woman patient exchanges ugly head for pretty one Date: 1847

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