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This black and white postcard shows Professor Samuel Pozzi performing a laparotomy in an operating theater at the Hôpital Broca in Paris. Several nurses are assisting. An audience watches from a raised platform and a balcony. The operation is taking place on the right side of the scene. It shows the operating table positioned so that the patient's knees are bent. Several people surround the table, some assisting and some observing. A nurse stands to the surgeon's right holding something in her hands. Another nurse stands in the center of the room, holding a bowl that she has picked up from a circular stand in front of her. Another nurse stands farther away with a cart containing various items.
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