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A medicinal dictionary
Table XLII-XLIII
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.
Surgery: cancer of the breast.
Surgery: cancer of the breast, field operation, just before the final cut.
Plate L
Plate L
Forceps invented by Helvetius for the examination and amputation of cancerous breasts; includes also plate on diseases of the breast
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 30.3 x 37.8 cm
Table XLIV Table XLV / Table XLIII
Table XLIV Table XLV / Table XLIII
Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations
xxxii, 708 page, folded plates. ; (4to)
Edited by D. Cox. Cf. "Introduction"
Translated from the German original by George Wirgman
Edited by D. Cox. Cf. "Introduction"
Translated from the German original by George Wirgman
[Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers] / par une sociéte de gens de lettres. Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication
11 volumes : plates (some folded) ; (folio); Vol. 10 containes the frontispiece to the Encyclopédie.
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: False imprint; there were two 'Paris eds., one published at Geneva (see new BM Cat.)
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: False imprint; there were two 'Paris eds., one published at Geneva (see new BM Cat.)
Chirurgie
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm; 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. 236; Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt…
Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound
Pen drawing by ZS (?); Inscribed in ink: "Not to be used except by special permission HWL."; After: J. Scultetus, Armamentarium chirurgiae, Lyon 1603
Institutiones chirurgicae in quibus quicquid ad rem chirurgicam pertinet, optima et novissima ratione pertractatur atque in tabulis multis aeneis praestantissima ac maxime necessaria instrumenta itemque artificia, sive encheirises praecipuae et vincturae chirurgicae repraesentantur / Opus ... quod in hac novissima editione Neapolitana dissertationibus, cum auctoris, tum aliorum selectis ad rem chirurgicam spectantibus auctum atque mendis typographicis, quibus Veneta scatebat ... expurgatum prodit in lucem.
"complete set" but still does not show cancer removal tools for mastectomies
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)
Institutiones chirurgicae in quibus quidquid ad rem chirurgicam pertinet, optima et novissima ratione pertractatur post aliquot editiones germanica lingua evulgatas, in exterorum gratiam latine altera vice longe auctius atque emendatius publicatum ...
2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to); also edition without the surgery of breast cancer