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Armamentarium Chirurgicum
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…
Antiseptic surgery : its principles, practice, history and results
xxiv, 616 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Anthropographia et osteologia
1 print : engraving ; image 16.5 x 10.6 cm
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Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum adornatum a Ioanne Riolano filio cum figuris.
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Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum adornatum a Ioanne Riolano filio cum figuris.
Annunciate Angel, the Apostle Andrew, a Bishop Saint (Savinus?), and Saints Dominic and Francis of Assisi [left]; Virgin Annunciate and Saints Bartholomew, Lawrence, Lucy, and Agatha [right]
Medium: Tempera and tooled gold on enframed panels with vertical grain
Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches (63.8 x 42.9 cm)
Dimensions: 25 1/8 x 16 7/8 inches (63.8 x 42.9 cm)
Anne Manning and Betty Upton
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…
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…
Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes
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.…
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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.…
Andreas Vesalius
"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…
