Charles Bell's surgery and anatomy illustrations

Charles Bell's Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery (1821). Visit Iowa Digital Library for the complete illustrations of this work.

Sir Charles Bell (1774 - 1842), was a Scottish anatomist, neurologist, surgeon and natural theologian. He and his brother had remarkable artistic gifts, and together they taught anatomy and illustrated and published two volumes of A System of Dissection Explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body.

Trephination


various procedures of limbs amputations