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Tongue depressor, forceps for seton in children, needles, and cautery iron contained within a long cannula. For descriptions of the instruments, see H. Fabricius ab Aquapendente, De chirurgicis operationibus, in his Opera chirurgica, Padua: F.…

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

The titlepage shows Eve and Adam cast out of paradise from various characters. A figure with a laurel wreath and caduceus in hand pulls Eve by the hair

See in the 1741 cylcopaedia a line for "surgery" to see "chirurgery". Under "Chirurgery" it states that it is "popularly called Surgery, the third branch of medicine; consisting in operations performed by the hand, for the cure of wounds, and other…

After plate to: Astley Cooper, A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 20 x 32.5 cm

1 print : woodcut ; border 20.2 x 13.5 cm