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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
The pill-box probably contains remedies for venereal disease. The larger machine is for reducing a dislocated shoulder while the smaller one provides an elaborate way of drawing a cork from a bottle. The doctor polishes his spectacles beside a human…
Injecting Blood Royal or Phlebotomy at St Cloud
1 print : 28 x 41 cm.
Technique:
etching, color
Technique:
etching, color
Institutiones chirurgicae in quibus quicquid ad rem chirurgicam pertinet, optima et novissima ratione pertractatur ...
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
Institutiones chirurgicae in quibus quicquid ad rem chirurgicam pertinet, optima et novissima ratione pertractatur atque in tabulis multis aeneis praestantissima ac maxime necessaria instrumenta itemque artificia, sive encheirises praecipuae et vincturae chirurgicae repraesentantur / Opus ... quod in hac novissima editione Neapolitana dissertationibus, cum auctoris, tum aliorum selectis ad rem chirurgicam spectantibus auctum atque mendis typographicis, quibus Veneta scatebat ... expurgatum prodit in lucem.
"complete set" but still does not show cancer removal tools for mastectomies
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)
Institutiones chirurgicae in quibus quidquid ad rem chirurgicam pertinet, optima et novissima ratione pertractatur post aliquot editiones germanica lingua evulgatas, in exterorum gratiam latine altera vice longe auctius atque emendatius publicatum ...
2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to); also edition without the surgery of breast cancer
Instrumenta chyrurgiae et icons anathomicae
205 unnumbered leaves (last 2 blank) ; (8vo 17 cm)
This volume contains 202 wood engravings without text, the majority from the 'Dix livres de chirurgie' published in Paris, 1564: they have been carefully painted by hand in gold, silver, and…
This volume contains 202 wood engravings without text, the majority from the 'Dix livres de chirurgie' published in Paris, 1564: they have been carefully painted by hand in gold, silver, and…
J. Gelle, Der Artz als Mensch
1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone
Technique:
halftone
Joh. Gelle, Der Artz als Engel
1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone
Technique:
halftone