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Leiden, the Netherlands: the anatomy theatre, interior of a church, town weighing establishment and portraits

Description
Top center, portraits of the Anabaptist leader Jan Beukelszoon ("Iohan Bocold rex Anabapt") and one of his wives ("Elisa Johan[nis] uxor regina")

Physical description
1 print : line engraving
Lettering
Le poids de la ville, & la…

Tags: anatomy theatre, flayed man, museum, newssheet, operating theatre, popular, public, skeletons

Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers

1 print : woodcut ; image 35.2 x 24.3 cm

Tags: blank, breast, copy, female corpse, frontispiece, operating theatre, skeleton, stereotype, tools, touch, vesalius

Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies

1 print : engraving ; image 28.4 x 16.1 cm
Lettering
Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.

Tags: anatomy, frontispiece, jewish, mastectomy, operating theatre, shears, tools, treatise