Figures
1.1Haptic hieroglyphics: Robert Liston’s guide to incisions from his Practical Surgery (London: John Churchill, 1837), p. 17.
1.2Robert Blemmel Schnebbelie, A Lecture at the Hunterian Anatomy School, Great Windmill Street, London, watercolour (1839).
1.3‘A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man’s left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room’, watercolour (1817).
1.4Leiden anatomical theatre (1596), from Johannes van Meurs, Athenae Batavae (1625).
1.5F. M. Harvey, The Old Operating Theatre at The London Hospital, Demolished in 1889 (1889), oil on canvas.
1.7Mary Ann Griffiths, The Lancet 27:688 (5 November 1836), p. 237.
3.1‘Poor Hoo Loo and His Tumour’, The Lancet 16:398 (16 April 1831), p. 89.
5.1Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Auto-Icon’, housed in Thomas Southwood Smith’s consulting room before being moved to University College London in 1850.
5.2John Snow’s Apparatus for the Inhalation of Ether and Chloroform, The Lancet 51:1276 (12 February 1848), p. 179.
6.1‘The Doll Episode’ from J. R. Leeson, Lister as I Knew Him (1927).