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2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to); this volume does not include surgical tools for breast cancer removal or the "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne), images show the surgeon present and not-present with tools

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Is part of: Tabulae anatomicae, frontispiece.; See related catalog record: 2691968R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
engraving

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1 postcard : 9 x 14 cm
Provenance:
Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:
color

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Is part of: Fasciculus medicinae.; See related catalog record: 2211056R
woodcut, color

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Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic

Kamata Keishu, a pupil of the renowned surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835),…

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6 unnumbered pages, 380, 4 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 80 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: RAMC Note: Publisher's catalogues (6p),(8p) on front and end endpapers
Copy 2 Note: Publisher's cat. and adverts. at front and…

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Frontispiece of Johannes Scultetus's Armamentarium Chirurgicum shows a man's leg being set. In the background hung on the wall are the surgeon's instruments of choice, including bone nippers and other shears. This treatise is moreso catered to…
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