This volume contains 202 wood engravings without text, the majority from the 'Dix livres de chirurgie' published in Paris, 1564: they have been carefully painted by hand in gold, silver, and colours
Copy 1. There are MS. signatures, and on the verso of the first leaf the title of the work as given above. On the second leaf in the same hand is the signature 'N. Rassius Desneus Chyrurgus S. Par'. Binding: late 17th century red goatskin over thin pasteboards, gold tooling with the arms of Nicolas Fouquet (Squirrel rampant) and a crown on the spine. This is typical of a group of bindings from around 1700 produced in imitation of earlier 17th century styles. For more information see Pascal Ract-Madoux and Isabelle de Conihout Reliures françaises du xviie siècle chefs-d'oeuvre du musée condé (Paris, Chantilly, 2002) - see especially no. 44. Bought on 6. 2. 1895, in the Libri Sale at Christie's, by Charles Butler, of Warren Wood, Hatfield, whose book-plate has been pasted inside the cover. Bought for the Wellcome Library at the Sotheby sale of Butler's library, 1. 6. 1911, Lot 1706.]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gea92cjg ]]>
Copy 1 Note: Author's presentation copy to Sir Henry Dale
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A woman seated clutching breast could stand for melancholy (mastectomy). Tools in the foreground reminiscent of shears.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101435926]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y2zq23vy]]> Mezzotint
Height: Height: 352 millimetres
Width: Width: 248 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, four lines of verse in two columns 'Why squeeze your Hat, and seize my Cap, ... I'm a Licentiate: Not a Quack.' and 'Designed by J. Harris & Improved by drawings after the Life of J. Dixon. // Published according to Act of Parliament A.D. 1768. // Dixon fecit. // Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London.']]> After: John Harris ((?))
Published by: John Bowles]]> Europe: British Isles: England: London (England)]]> Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)]]>
Tools feature in a locked cabinet to his left, including those used for mastectomies.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436382]]> The leaves (195mm x 140 mm) are cream laid paper, sewn into hard decorated covers (202 mm x 145 mm) with panels of small square numbered illustrations on both front and back, the spine is missing; front cover of note #11 has a surgical tool, the same used for mastectomy and torture; Height: Height: 202 millimetres
Width: Width: 145 millimetres]]>
The operation of a hernia, which Stromayr describes is extremely similar to a mastectomy of the period (non-operative) in which the surgeon would loop a thread around the maligned area and gradually strangulate it until the strangled area would scar and drop off.

There are various versions of these prints, and their authenticity is hard to ascertain ]]> ]]>
The instrument used by the operator is the "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne), as described by Jean-Adrien Helvetius in Traité des pertes de sang .. accompagné de sa lettre sur la nature et guérison du cancer, Paris 1697, pp. 153-155 and folding plate f.p. 153; L. Heister, Institutiones chirurgicae, Amsterdam 1739, vol. 2, pp. 740-741 and tab. XXIII fig. 1. A similar instrument is used by Saint Agatha's torturer in an earlier (ca. 1600?) engraving by Philips Galle]]>
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (9.2 x 6.8 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 inches (9.5 x 7.2 cm)]]> Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium), Europe]]> https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/79938
The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985]]>