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Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.

A gloved hand making surgical stitches. Coloured pencil drawing, 19--.

Four diagrams illustrating heads with severe wounds, demonstrating how to stitch the skin back together properly. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.

A woman and a girl having an ear and a nose pierced, a boy receiving stitches on his arm and a man having his hair cut, another a shave; a warning about the dangers of using unsterilized equipment and contracting the HIV virus by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca 1997.

Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.

Surgical stitches and knots. Coloured pencil drawing.

Plate 3, Illustration of a seton stitch.

A wounded leg with a quilled suture. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.

De l'emploi des sutures perdues dans quelques opérations plastiques / par Jaques-L. Reverdin.

Notes on the preparation of catgut for surgical purposes / [Joseph Lister].

Handbook of ligatures and sutures : historical notes, nature and methods of preparation, sterilization, testing and handling, with descriptive list of prepared ligatures and sutures.

Silver sutures in surgery / by J. Marion Sims.

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De l'emploi des sutures perdues dans quelques opérations plastiques / par Jaques-L. Reverdin.

A wounded leg with a quilled suture. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.

Notes on the preparation of catgut for surgical purposes / [Joseph Lister].

Handbook of ligatures and sutures : historical notes, nature and methods of preparation, sterilization, testing and handling, with descriptive list of prepared ligatures and sutures.

Silver sutures in surgery / by J. Marion Sims.