Mastectomy Tools

Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it

Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925

[Urine examination at a physicians' office or laboratory]

"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…

[Patients in the physicians' office]

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.

William Stewart Halsted, surgeon

xvii, 241 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical tables ; 22 cm

Copy 1 Note: Author's presentation copy to Sir Henry Dale

Surgical instruments used, and operations successfully carried out, by an English travelling operator claiming royal patronage

Believed to be a fragment of an engraving printed from the original copperplate after it had ceased to be of use for printing engravings. The copper sheet was cut up and the top right corner, used to print the top left corner of the engraving, was…

Saint Agatha in a Floral Border

Use of a surgical tool rather than a blacksmithing tongs

Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (9.2 x 6.8 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 inches (9.5 x 7.2 cm)

Instrumenta chyrurgiae et icons anathomicae

205 unnumbered leaves (last 2 blank) ; (8vo 17 cm)

This volume contains 202 wood engravings without text, the majority from the 'Dix livres de chirurgie' published in Paris, 1564: they have been carefully painted by hand in gold, silver, and…

The Ludicrous Operator, or Blacksmith turn'd Tooth Drawer

(For description and further comment, see impression of BM Sat. 8051: 1935,0522.1.176)
Mezzotint
Height: Height: 352 millimetres
Width: Width: 248 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, four lines of verse in…

'The ludicrous operator, or blacksmith turn'd tooth drawer'

Sketchbook of 83 leaves, mostly of studies made in Rome in preparation for various sculptures

groups of sketches and drawings from Piranesi (f.3-17), studies for works entitled 'Landscape with Ruins', 'Ecstasy of St Agatha', 'Fiery Kind' (f.50-60?), 'Flagellation', drawings from the Castello Sforzesco, studies for a series of works for the…

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