Browse Items (414 total)

oil and tempera on canvas
Painted surface H: 25 1/4 x W: 19 13/16 in. (64.2 x 50.3 cm)

fresco, choir
SS. Agata e Margherita, Cremona, Italy

photochemical reproduction

"Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634) a noteds surgeon who practiced in Bern, Switzerland, was the first to advocate removal of both breast and axillary glands in carinoma mammae. He denounced the red hot knives and..."

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Black and white postcard featuring Jean Martin Charcot demonstating a hypnosis on "hysterical" female patient who is supported by another doctor, Joseph Babinski. The nurse is standing next to them, ready to help if needed.

1 postcard : 14 x 9 cm

Photograph of a painting of French barber surgeon Ambroise Paré, standing over an ailing patient with a soldier to his left and an assistant to his right.

1 photograph : 26 x 21 cm

A group of doctors are aided by nurses as they demonstrate surgical & medical techniques to an audience in the surgical amphitheater of the University of Maryland Hospital.

1 photograph : 18 x 13 cm

1 photomechanical print : image and text 26 x 21 cm., on sheet 39 x 29 cm.

Interior view: a small snarling dog is keeping two handicapped men and a woman with a tumor on her neck away from a physician sitting at a desk in his office.

Tools feature in a locked cabinet to his left, including those used for mastectomies.

"Interior view: a woman with a young child are standing next to a physician who is holding a urine flask; in the background other physicians? are holding flasks; a satyr and a monkey at the top of the page are indicative of the fallacy of the…

"Interior vew: kitchen, eating area, and wards all in close proximity; two bedridden patients are being attended to in the background"

Nurse holds a tool that resembles a pair of tongs, unclear purpose

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