Operating rooms

Photograph of doctors and nurses attending a patient during surgery while observed by students in the Bellevue Hospital Operating Room Amphitheater, circa 1880s.

Doctors and nurses performing surgery on a patient at Bellevue Hospital.

Five doctors from Bellevue Hospital’s Fourth Surgical Division operate on a male patient in the Ward 23 Annex operating room, 1893.

Photograph of doctors and a nurse operating on a patient while observed by students in a surgical amphitheater at Bellevue Hospital, 1893.

Three doctors and three nurses attending to a patient on an operating table, while a man appears to be administering ether to the patient holding a mask over his nose and mouth.