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205 unnumbered leaves (last 2 blank) ; (8vo 17 cm)

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…

xvii, 241 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical tables ; 22 cm

Copy 1 Note: Author's presentation copy to Sir Henry Dale

"Interior view: a woman with a young child are standing next to a physician who is holding a urine flask; in the background other physicians? are holding flasks; a satyr and a monkey at the top of the page are indicative of the fallacy of the…

(For description and further comment, see impression of BM Sat. 8051: 1935,0522.1.176)
Mezzotint
Height: Height: 352 millimetres
Width: Width: 248 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, four lines of verse in…

Interior view: a small snarling dog is keeping two handicapped men and a woman with a tumor on her neck away from a physician sitting at a desk in his office.

Tools feature in a locked cabinet to his left, including those used for mastectomies.

groups of sketches and drawings from Piranesi (f.3-17), studies for works entitled 'Landscape with Ruins', 'Ecstasy of St Agatha', 'Fiery Kind' (f.50-60?), 'Flagellation', drawings from the Castello Sforzesco, studies for a series of works for the…

Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925

The operator excises the breast with the "tenaculum helvetianum", presumably to remove breast cancer. His assistant has a case of lancets etc. attached to his belt. A set of cautery irons is smouldering on a stand on the left. The patient is seated,…

Use of a surgical tool rather than a blacksmithing tongs

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)