A woman seated clutching breast could stand for melancholy (mastectomy). Tools in the foreground reminiscent of shears.]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101435926]]> ]]> ]]> Technique:
engraving
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1 print : engraving ; image 18.7 x 15.6 cm

Et plurima mortis imago.[on a banderole] Consultation of physicians. A facsimile of Hogarth's own engraving.

- the oirignal print (done by hogarth himself) labels these as 'undertakers' not physicians - though doctor is implied
]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/bhcbmks4]]> ]]> R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London, 1989, no.144]]>
Lettering
Ambroise Paré apprenti-barbier, chirurgien a Paris. J. Ansseau. Morin.
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/na4pu2fc]]> Lettering
Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou <Greek> opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ktyycrm5]]> Description
A story described in an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Epigrammes, 1723, lib. I, epigram XI (from which the lettering on the present print was copied)
1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 31.8 x 25.3 cm
L'operateur Barri. ... Peint par E. Jeaurat. Gravé par Balechou 1743.
]]> "Opérateur" was defined by F.-S. Régnier-Desmarais (1632-1713) as follows: "Qui fait certaines opérations de chirurgie. Opérateur oculiste. Opérateur pour les dents. Opérateur pour la pierre. Fameux opérateur. Il se prend plus particulièrement pour un charlatan, qui debite ses remèdes, & qui vend ses drogues en place publique" (Nouveau dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, Paris 1718, vol. 2 p. 168). Pierre Richelet (1626-1698) defined it as follows: "Opérateur (Empyricus). Sorte de médecin chimique, qui ordinairement vend, ou fait vendre du baume & d'autres sortes de drogues sur un théatre dans les places publiques des villes (Un bon Opérateur)" (Dictionnaire de la langue françoise, ancienne et moderne, Lyon 1759, vol. 2, p. 757). Barri appears to be a proper name]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sxfyk5ec]]> Laurie Marty de Cambiaire (ed.), Tableaux et dessins, Paris: Marty de Cambiaire, 2017, pp. 132-133, no. 6]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qjdn9f8k]]> Not found in: Marcel Roux and Edmond Pognon, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1955, tome VIII (inventory of prints by N.-G. Dupuis)
G. Wolf-Heidegger & A.M. Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel, 1967, no. 231]]>
"Tapissier, façon du point glacis, et outils. ; Radel del. ; Benard fec."]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gmzg54j4]]>
From Science Museum: "Lorenz Heister's (1683-1758) 'A General System of Surgery', published originally in 1743, describes a method for the removal of a tumour from a breast. The image shows the operation in progress.

This print is from the 1780 edition of ‘Dictionnaire raisonée des sciences des arts et des métiers’, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert. The title translates as Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Trades. This was the first French encyclopaedia that aimed to introduce new ideas but also create a record of existing techniques such as those in surgery."]]>