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  • Collection: Surgical Tracts

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt fecit
Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p.…

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See in the 1741 cylcopaedia a line for "surgery" to see "chirurgery". Under "Chirurgery" it states that it is "popularly called Surgery, the third branch of medicine; consisting in operations performed by the hand, for the cure of wounds, and other…

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Is part of: De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, p. 271.; See related catalog record: 2234047R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut

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Is part of: Microcosmus hypochondriacus; sive, De melancholia hypochondriaca tractatus, title page.; See related catalog record: 2352066R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
engraving

Perotti-Gennaro.pdf
The titlepage shows Eve and Adam cast out of paradise from various characters. A figure with a laurel wreath and caduceus in hand pulls Eve by the hair

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Tongue depressor, forceps for seton in children, needles, and cautery iron contained within a long cannula. For descriptions of the instruments, see H. Fabricius ab Aquapendente, De chirurgicis operationibus, in his Opera chirurgica, Padua: F.…

feldbuch.pdf
[6], cv, [1] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates
Binding Note:
NLM copy, bound contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf, with two metal clasps on leather.
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