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…
"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…