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Operating theatre reception: one of the assistants sitting at a computer, with a chart of operations behind. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1995.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.

University College Hospital: medical staff in an operating theatre which has stairs leading up on either side. Photograph.

A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Two Indian doctors with a British doctor and a British nurse in the operating theatre of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Photographic postcard by A.H. Fry, ca. 1915.

A physician rushes into an operating theatre, exclaiming that there has been an error in diagnosis; unfortunately, the patient is already lying there, opened up. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

World War Two: a surgical operation being performed under primitive conditions in a hospital camp. Coloured pen and ink drawing by L. Rawlings, 1946.

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Medical students observing an operation on a lantern screen via a projecting periscope located above the operating table. Halftone after H.W. Koekkoek, 1909.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Two Indian doctors with a British doctor and a British nurse in the operating theatre of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Photographic postcard by A.H. Fry, ca. 1915.

University College Hospital: medical staff in an operating theatre which has stairs leading up on either side. Photograph.

World War Two: a surgical operation being performed under primitive conditions in a hospital camp. Coloured pen and ink drawing by L. Rawlings, 1946.