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Zodiac Man
Is part of: Fasciculo de medicina, folio b2 recto.; See related catalog record: 2257012R
Surgery: above, a chair-bedstead and a patient-dossier; below, a man and a child seated on the chair-bedstead.
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm
Lettering
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Prevost fecit. Bears number: Pl. XII
Lettering
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Prevost fecit. Bears number: Pl. XII
Surgical instruments: 91 figures, including an operating table and an adjustable bed
1 print : line engraving ; image, border and lettering 21.1 x 26 cm
lettering: I ; Taf. 140 ; B.8. ; G. Heck dirt. ; Henry Winkles sculpt.
lettering: I ; Taf. 140 ; B.8. ; G. Heck dirt. ; Henry Winkles sculpt.
[Venesection on the hand of a female patient]
A woman, sitting in a chair, is having her left hand bled.
Is part of: Nuova et utlilssima prattica di tutto quello ch'al diligente barbiero s'appartiene, opp. p. 55.; See related catalog record: 2302032R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut
Is part of: Nuova et utlilssima prattica di tutto quello ch'al diligente barbiero s'appartiene, opp. p. 55.; See related catalog record: 2302032R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut
Abridged Version of "De arte phisicali de cirurgia", "Fistula in ano", Including an Obstetrical Treatise.
Manuscript X 188 in the National Library of Sweden dates to around 1425--35 and contains two works by John Arderne (active 1307--70), an abridged version of De arte phisicali et de cirurgia (Of the physical arts and surgery) and Fistula in ano. Also…
Andreas Vesalius
"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…
De Medicina (On Medicine)
This version discusses tumors and its cures. The frontispiece shows a physician pulling a folly stone from a naked man while in the background framed by an architectural structure, a female statue stands with the caduceus
An antidotarie chyrurgicall, containing great varietie and choice of all sorts of medicines that commonly fal into the chyrurgions use: partlie taken out of authors, olde and new, printed or written, partlie obtained by free gifte of sundrie worthie men of this profession within this land
3 unnumbered leaves, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves ; (8vo)
no illustrations
Sig. [asterisk]7 has catchword for sig. A3. The preliminary matter (sig. [asterisk]2-8 and A1-4) consists of the dedication "to Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke," the author's…
no illustrations
Sig. [asterisk]7 has catchword for sig. A3. The preliminary matter (sig. [asterisk]2-8 and A1-4) consists of the dedication "to Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke," the author's…
Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark
294 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 14 pages : frontispiece (portrait), plate ; (8vo)
2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of…
2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of…
A system of surgery
pages 55- , Bell describes the advantages of the tenaculum over crooked needles in amputations (particularly cancerous breasts)
"I have seen it necessary for the surgeon, to put the patient to a great deal of pain, by being obliged to cut out the…
"I have seen it necessary for the surgeon, to put the patient to a great deal of pain, by being obliged to cut out the…