Browse Items (11 total)

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handwritten lettering "Copyright Wellcome Historical Medical Museum" with typeset caption "A surgeon's operating room, 1690)

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1 print : 41 x 26 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
lithograph, color

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1 print : 33 x 26 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color

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1 print : 54 x 44 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
aquatint and etching

note: the gender ambiguity of the 'demons'

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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

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Is part of: De chirurgica institutione libri quinque, p. 152.; See related catalog record: 2291004R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut

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photochemical reproduction

"Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634) a noteds surgeon who practiced in Bern, Switzerland, was the first to advocate removal of both breast and axillary glands in carinoma mammae. He denounced the red hot knives and..."

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1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour

Ricord uses a knife upon cupids
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