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  • Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.
  • A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • Roderick Random (a licentiate from Scotland) facing a board of medical examiners at Surgeons Hall. Coloured aquatint by J. Stadler, 1800, after S. Collings after T. Smollett.
  • Napoleon visiting the wounded after the Battle of Eylau. Coloured etching.
  • The medical practitioner as Christ, angel, man and devil. Coloured engravings by J. Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • Claridge's, London: dinner to celebrate the centenary of the Medical press and circular. Photograph, 1939.
  • Germain Colot performing an operation for bladder stone. Coloured pencil drawing by A. Rivoulon.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
  • Ambroise Paré, head and shoulders. Gouache.
  • 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.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.
  • A surgeon binding up a woman's arm after bloodletting. Oil painting by Jacob Toorenvliet, 1666.
  • Birds dressed as surgeons or medical students dissect a body. Pen drawing attributed to J. Grandville, 1829.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A surgeon and two assistants manipulating a dislocated shoulder joint back into the correct position. Etching by T. Jefferys.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A surgeon extracting the stone of folly. Oil painting by Pieter Huys, ca. 1561.
  • A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face in the background. Mezzotint by Jan van der Bruggen after D. Teniers II, 167-.
  • 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.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from the back of a man's hand. Oil painting after (?) Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.