Freaky Images Of Surgery In The 1800s... Before Anesthesia
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Open Image ModalL0043657 Woodcut illustration, anatomical dissection scene, 1495Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgWoodcut illustration, anatomical dissection scene, 1495.1495 Fasciculus medicine. [F.1a.tit:] Fasciculus medicine in quo continentur: videlicet. ... [F.40b] Hecanothomia fuit emendata ab eximio artium ... Impressum Venetiis per Joannem et Gregorium de Gregoriis fratres. Anno domini Mccccxcv die xv Octobris /Joannes de KethamJoannem et Gregorium de Gregoriis Fratres.Published: 1495.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="18" data-vars-position-in-unit="19">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078011 Plate 9, Ligature of the axillary artery in the armpit.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlate 9, Ligature of the axillary artery in the armpit.1848 Précis iconographique de médecine opératoire et d'anatomie chirurgicale /Claude BernardCh. (Charles) HuettePublished: 1848.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="17" data-vars-position-in-unit="18">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078156 Plate XIV. Ligature of the arteries of the lower arm.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlate XIV. Ligature of the arteries of the lower arm.1846 A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged /Joseph PancoastPublished: 1846.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="16" data-vars-position-in-unit="17">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078170 Plate XLIX. Eye surgery to correct strabismus.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlate XLIX. Surgery to correct strabismus, involving the division of the internal rectus of the right eye. Strabismus is the misalignment of the eyes.1846 A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged /Joseph PancoastPublished: 1846.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="15" data-vars-position-in-unit="16">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078174 Plate LIV. Surgery for cancer of the tongue.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlate LIV. Surgery for cancer of the tongue.1846 A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged /Joseph PancoastPublished: 1846.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="14" data-vars-position-in-unit="15">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078516 Pl. 25. Vertical cross section of the human brain, 1844.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlanche 25, Tome 3. Vertical cross section of the human brain.Lithograph1844 By: Nicolas-Henri JacobTraité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme comprenant la médecine opératoire ... : avec planches lithographiées ... /J. M. BourgeryPublished: [1831-1854]Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="13" data-vars-position-in-unit="14">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078540 Pl. 77. Childbirth, delivery by caesarean section.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlanche 77, Tome 7. Childbirth, delivery by caesarean section.Lithograph1840 By: Nicolas-Henri JacobTraité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme comprenant la médecine opératoire ... : avec planches lithographiées ... /J. M. BourgeryPublished: [1831-1854]Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="12" data-vars-position-in-unit="13">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078558 Plate 27. Surgery to remove the breast.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgTomo II, Tavola 27. Surgery to remove the breast, and wound dressing.1841 Iconografia d'anatomia chirurgica e di medicina operatoria /J. M. BourgeryPublished: 1841-1856.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="11" data-vars-position-in-unit="12">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078576 Plate 48, Bourgery and Jacob, Iconografia d'anatomia, 1841.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgLigature of an artery in the inguinal region, using sutures and a suture hook, with compression of the abdomen to reduce aortic blood flow.Lithograph1841 Iconografia d'anatomia chirurgica e di medicina operatoria /J. M. BourgeryPublished: 1841-1856.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="10" data-vars-position-in-unit="11">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078580 Plate 55. Surgical instruments used for amputation.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgTomo 1, Tavola 55. Surgical instruments used for amputation and resections, and other types of operations on the bones.1841 Iconografia d'anatomia chirurgica e di medicina operatoria /J. M. BourgeryPublished: 1841-1856.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="9" data-vars-position-in-unit="10">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078582 Plate 65. Resection of the lower jaw.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgTomo 1, Tavola 65. Resection of the lower jaw.1841 Iconografia d'anatomia chirurgica e di medicina operatoria /J. M. BourgeryPublished: 1841-1856.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="8" data-vars-position-in-unit="9">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078586 Plate 81. Amputations of the toes and foot.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgTomo 1, Tavola 81. Techniques for amputation of the toes and foot at the metatarsals.1841 Iconografia d'anatomia chirurgica e di medicina operatoria /J. M. BourgeryPublished: 1841-1856.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="7" data-vars-position-in-unit="8">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0043602 Illustration of operative surgeryCredit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgIllustration of operative surgery1846 A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged /Joseph PancoastPublished: 1846.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="6" data-vars-position-in-unit="7">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0023521 Arzneibuch. Western Manuscript 990, pages 83 and 84Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgOphthalmic surgery. Treatment for lachrimal fistula performed on a nunca. 1675 Arzneibuch. Compendium of popular medicine and surgery, receipts, etc., in German. Compiled for the use of a House of the Franciscan Order, probably in Austria, or South Germany.Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="5" data-vars-position-in-unit="6">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0041074 WMS 990 BloodlettingCredit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgMan wearing a tourniquet, letting blood into a bowl. Two other bowls already filled with blood sit nearby.ca. 1675 Arzneibuch. Compendium of popular medicine and surgery, receipts, etc., in German. Compiled for the use of a House of the Franciscan Order, probably in Austria, or South Germany.Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="4" data-vars-position-in-unit="5">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0041078 WMS 990 Breast OperationCredit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgWoman having a breast operation.ca. 1675 Arzneibuch. Compendium of popular medicine and surgery, receipts, etc., in German. Compiled for the use of a House of the Franciscan Order, probably in Austria, or South Germany.Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="3" data-vars-position-in-unit="4">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0041056 Frontispiece, The Workes of Ambrose Parey, 1634Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgThe frontispiece to the translation of Ambroise Pare's works, published in 1634.1634 By: Ambroise ParÈThe workes of ... Ambrose Parey Ambroise ParÈPublished: 1634Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2" data-vars-position-in-unit="3">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078130 Plate I. Dissection of the thorax.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlate I. Dissection of the thorax, showing the relative position of the lungs, heart and primary blood vessels.1856 Surgical anatomy /Joseph. MaclisePublished: 1856.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1" data-vars-position-in-unit="2">Wellcome Library, London</a>)
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Open Image ModalL0078212 Plate XXV. Dissection of the thorax and abdomen.Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Imagesimages@wellcome.ac.ukhttp://wellcomeimages.orgPlate XXV. Dissection of a man, showing the relation of the principal blood vessels of the thorax and abdomen to the osseus skeleton.1859 Surgical anatomy /Joseph. MaclisePublished: 1859.Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (credit:<a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wellcome Library, London" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="56a2678be4b076aadcc66af3" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0002158.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0" data-vars-position-in-unit="1">Wellcome Library, London</a>)