EVB2936433: A woman lying on a bed is being restrained by two male assistants while the surgeon extracts the infant during a Cesarean section. The operation was fatal to most women, with the first recorded maternal survival of 25 days after the operation occurring in 1605. Italian print from 1601 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936604: Whirling bed and chair used to tranquilize patients inmates in mental hospitals in 19th century Belgium, by pioneering physician Joseph Guislain (1797-1860). As head of the mental hospitals of Ghent, he developed a humane therapeutic environment for the insane. c. 1835 / Bridgeman Images