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  • Collection: Surgical Tracts

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"In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to publish the book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which many believe was…

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Frontispiece of Johannes Scultetus's Armamentarium Chirurgicum shows a man's leg being set. In the background hung on the wall are the surgeon's instruments of choice, including bone nippers and other shears. This treatise is moreso catered to…

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 39.9 x 21.1 cm
lettering: Bibliotheca anatomica Lettering on obelisks, left and right: Multum egerūt qui a(n)te nos fuerunt, sed non peregerūt, multumque restabit, nec ulli nato per mille secula praecludetur…

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11 unnumbered leaves, 537 pages, 37 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)
Contents
De virorum organis generationi inservientibus -- Epistola ad virum clarissimum Lacam Schacht ... de partibus genitalibus…
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