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…
1 print : etching ; platemark 13.1 x 9 cm
Poster stuck on wall of cottage reads "Leake's pills. Mercury exploded, desperate cases cured in three days. Mortified limbs scraped with a coal shovel. Flesh regenerated on bare bones." A sheet on the…
1 drawing : black chalk heightened with white gouache ; sheet 62.5 x 47.8 cm
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Chasselat L'an 8. De son art bienfaisant il agrandit la sphère. Esculape conduit sa main, Minerve sa pensée. Il réunit enfin L'art de guérir et l'art de plaire.…
"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…