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"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…

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.

xxiv, 616 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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…

57 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm; Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p. 236; Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt…

lxxxii pages, 1 leaf, 903 pages : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations ; 27 cm

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…

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