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The Anatomist, 1811. Artist: Thomas RowlandsonThe Anatomist, 1811. Cartoon showing the terror of a patient and his wife as a surgeon opens his bag of instruments. Seeing the skeleton in the cupboard
Operation Room, Woolwich School Treatment Centre, London, 1914. A doctor, anaesthetist, and nurse attending to a child with a gag in their mouth
Operating Room, Fulham School Treatment Centre, London, 1914. A female doctor and nurse attending to a patient
A theatre at the Thavies Inn Hospital, London, 1930An operating theatre at the Thavies Inn Hospital, London, 1930. A theatre within the venereal disease centre for pregnant women. In 1931 the Infirmary was absorbed by Sheffield Street Hospital
Trephination, 1593. Using an elevator to remove a piece of bone from the skull. Trephination as a therapeutic or magico-religious procedure dates back to Neolithic times
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, c1900Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, German physicist and physiologist, c1900. The inventor of the opthalmoscope (1850)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, German physicist and physiologist, 1907. The inventor of the opthalmoscope (1850)
Using a laryngoscope to aid the removal of a polyp from the throat, c1890. A small mirror on a long metal handle was invented in 1854 by a Spanish singing teacher Manuel Garcia (1805-1906)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physicist and physiologist, 1894Hermann Helmholtz (1821-1894). German physicist and physiologist, inventor of the Opthalmascope. Seen here giving a lecture on 7 July 1894 shortly before his death
Woman in a birthing chair, Ancient Egyptian limestone relief from Kawm Umbu. Various medical instruments are depicted on the right
Ceremony of Circumcision, Basel, 1739 (first edition 1663). Artist: Jan LeusdenCeremony of Circumcision. From Jan Leusden Philogus Hebraeo-Mixtus, Basel, 1739 (first edition 1663). Engraving
Circumcision set. Photograph
Circumcision set, Dutch, 1827. Photograph