Ketham, Joannes de, active 15th century., Author]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101448217]]> [Venetia: Cesaro Arrivabeno, 1522]]]> Lettering
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Prevost fecit. Bears number: Pl. XII]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/escqk3xz]]> lettering: I ; Taf. 140 ; B.8. ; G. Heck dirt. ; Henry Winkles sculpt.

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Is part of: Nuova et utlilssima prattica di tutto quello ch'al diligente barbiero s'appartiene, opp. p. 55.; See related catalog record: 2302032R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut]]> http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101448293]]> ]]> De arte phisicali et de cirurgia ; Fistula in ano; Obstetrical treatise]]>
- Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- "Shelfmark: X 118"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- Original resource extent: Roll of 12 pieces of parchment ; 542.5 x 36 centimeters.
- Original resource at: National Library of Sweden.
- Content in Latin.
- Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.]]> ]]> https://lccn.loc.gov/2021667922]]> ]]> ]]>
The figure is much more masculine in the print than in the painting. Unclear which came first. See Pierre Poncet. Most likely print first (commissioned by Vesalius). Painting done afterwards not affiliated with Vesalius.]]> no illustrations

Sig. [asterisk]7 has catchword for sig. A3. The preliminary matter (sig. [asterisk]2-8 and A1-4) consists of the dedication "to Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke," the author's letter "To the friendly reader," and letters from William Goodrus and William Clowes to Banister

STC 1358
Copy 1 Note: Also reprinted with separate t.p. and pagination in his Works. 1633. Lacks preliminary pages?
Copy 1 Manuscript book-label of John, 11th Earl of Westmoreland
]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/b56562jg]]> ]]> 2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of tools)]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nnurj4pd]]> ]]>
"I have seen it necessary for the surgeon, to put the patient to a great deal of pain, by being obliged to cut out the threads with a scalpel. But when the tenaculum is used, every risk of this kind is avoided, from the ligatures generally dropping of their own accord, in the course of the third or fourth dressing of the fore." (57)
goes on to describe how one might tie arteries and nerves to help reduce pain "for the purpose of effecting this with ease and safety, various kinds of instruments termed a forceps have been invented; with these, the arteries of a fore are laid hold of and pulled out, so as to admit of the application of ligatures" (forceps good for larger blood-vessels but the tenaculum better for smaller arteries - see plate 1; "as a hook of this form answers equally well in the larger arteries likewise, the use of the forceps may therefore be laid entirely aside. The manner of using the tenaculum is this"

6 volumes : plates ; (8vo)
Final imprint date from catalogue of Edinburgh University Library.
Copy 1 Vol. 4 Note: 1st ed.
Copy 1 Vol. 5 Note: 1st ed.
Copy 1 Vol. 6 Note: 1st ed.]]> ]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y4bj8pbm]]> ]]>