Surgical Tracts

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Surgical Tracts

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Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656
Tongue depressor, forceps for seton in children, needles, and cautery iron contained within a long cannula. For descriptions of the instruments, see H. Fabricius ab Aquapendente, De chirurgicis operationibus, in his Opera chirurgica, Padua: F.…

De Medicina (On Medicine)
This version discusses tumors and its cures. The frontispiece shows a physician pulling a folly stone from a naked man while in the background framed by an architectural structure, a female statue stands with the caduceus

Medicina Aphoristica
The titlepage shows Eve and Adam cast out of paradise from various characters. A figure with a laurel wreath and caduceus in hand pulls Eve by the hair

Cyclopædia: or, an Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
See in the 1741 cylcopaedia a line for "surgery" to see "chirurgery". Under "Chirurgery" it states that it is "popularly called Surgery, the third branch of medicine; consisting in operations performed by the hand, for the cure of wounds, and other…

Two human figures illustrating the reduction of dislocations of the foramen ovale and the dorsum ilii
After plate to: Astley Cooper, A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints

Surgery: above, a chair-bedstead and a patient-dossier; below, a man and a child seated on the chair-bedstead.
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm
Lettering
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Prevost fecit. Bears number: Pl. XII

Surgical instruments
Suppl. pl.3, 146
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 20 x 32.5 cm
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