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Operating Theater

Date: 1902
Description: Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
Photograph

Operating Room

Date: 1911
Description: Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Photograph

Dr. Joseph Schneider, Famous Eye Surgeon

Date: 
Description: Dr. Joseph Schneider performs surgery on the eye of a man laying on a gurney, with assistance from a nun nurse and another man.
Photograph

Surgeon at the Steward's Quarters

Date: 
Description: A surgeon examines a patient at the steward's quarters. Joseph W. Curtis, hospital steward, is inside the tent, seated on a medicine chest.
Book or Pamphlet

Chapman's Medical School Brochure

Date: 1852
Description: Circular and catalogue advertising Dr. Chandler B. Chapman's "Practical School for Anatomy and Surgery." Madison, 1852.
Magazine or Periodical

Comely Features Article

Date: 12 1894
Description: An illustrated article in Godey's Ladies Book regarding "triumph of surgery" to improve one's facial features.
Magazine or Periodical

Detail of 'Comely Features' Article

Date: 12 1894
Description: An illustration from the article "Comely Features" in Godey's Ladies Book, showing elimination of forehead wrinkles.
Postcard

Madison General Hospital, Ante-room of Surgical Department

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the surgery ante-room. Gurneys in a brightly lit hallway. Doors out to the balcony. Caption reads: "Madison General Hospital, Madison, Wis...

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