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Halsted, Cushing and Young operating C014/1090

Halsted, Cushing and Young operating. Pioneering American surgeons William Halsted (1852-1922), Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) and Hugh Hampton Young (1897-1941) operating on a patient at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA, with physicians and students watching. Halsted was one of the four founding physicians of John Hopkins Hospital, which opened in 1889. He introduced aseptic technique and the Halstedian approach to surgery, which emphasised the careful handling of human tissue, control of bleeding and anatomically accurate dissection and suturing of tissue. Cushing was a skilful brain surgeon who pioneered several important techniques, including the control of blood pressure during surgery. Young specialised in genito-urinary surgery, performing the first surgery for the treatment of prostate cancer. Photographed circa 1903-1904

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The Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron (engraving)

880511 The Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron (engraving) by Bervic, Charles-ClA©ment (1756-1822); 57.8x43.8 cm; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA; A© Minneapolis Institute of Art; The William M. Ladd Collection. Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916; French, out of copyright

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Achilles, Aim, Aiming, Ancinet, Animal, Animals, Archer, Archers, Archery, Arrow, Arrows, Bow, Bows, Centaur, Centaurs, Chiron, Classical, Creature, Creatures, Deities, Deity, Demi God, Demi Gods, Education, God, Gods, Greece, Greek, Instruction, Male, Man, Men, Myth, Mythical, Mythological, Mythology, Myths, Shooting, Teaching, Training, Weapon, Weapons

Fresco in the crypt of the Cathedral, Anagni, Italy, (1928). Creator: Unknown

Fresco in the crypt of the Cathedral, Anagni, Italy, (1928). About 1250...Hippocrates and Galen, painted by the master of the "Traslazioni" in the crypt of the same church'. Plate LXIII, fig 135, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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