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

Willem Koekkoek · 1909

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Lettering: Students watching an operation at which they are not present: an attempt to abolish the hospital-theatre - the projector in surgery. ... Drawn by H. Koekkoek from a drawing in the "Scientific American," by courtesy of that paper.

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