Ancient medical practice posters & prints

Medicine in Ancient Egypt Robert Thom

Trepanned Skull English School

Ms Fr. Fv VI #1 fol.113v Greater Celandine or Poppy, Solanum or Nightshade, and Aron Robinet Testard

Ambe of Hippocrates: contraption for repairing dislocated shoulder Claude-Nicholas Le Cat

Components of the 'Ambe of Hippocrates': contraption for repairing dislocated shoulders Claude-Nicholas Le Cat

Surgical instruments. Manuscript of Al-Tasrif (The Method of Medicine) by Abulcasis, ca 1213-1223 Anonymous

Hydrotherapy treatments, c1902 Unknown

Antiseptic Surgery, 1882 English School

Three physicians preparing medicine, from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides Abdallah ibn al-Fadl

Surgical operations on limbs English School

Physician examining a specimen of patient's urine, c.1600 (19th century) Unknown

Dissection lesson at the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier French School

A Medical Consultation Islamic School

Hua Tuo practising acupuncture to anaesthetise patient Anonymous

The method of using the rugine Anonymous

Cunei Anonymous

Disarticulation of the little toe Anonymous

Ligature of external iliac Anonymous

The first incision Anonymous

A New Way of Preserving Heath and Beauty, 1786 English School

Method of sawing Anonymous

The mode of dividing the solidus muscle in ligature Anonymous

Excision of the knee Anonymous

Excision of the knee, the sawing of the lower end Anonymous

The Doctor is so severely bruised that cupping is judged necessary, c.1810 Thomas Rowlandson

The Enema Abraham Bosse

The Antikythera mechanism, 205 BC Historic Object

The Blood Letting Abraham Bosse

Bones Anonymous

Ligature of the right common femoral at the base of scarpa's Anonymous

Operation Anonymous

Mode of cutting the flap in the amputation at 44 Anonymous

Excision Anonymous

Trephining in Ancient Peru Robert Thom

Upper end of the humerus Anonymous

Excision of the elbow, sawing of the humerus Anonymous