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Opera omnia

11 unnumbered leaves, 537 pages, 37 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)
Contents
De virorum organis generationi inservientibus -- Epistola ad virum clarissimum Lacam Schacht ... de partibus genitalibus…

Tags: anatomy, frontispiece, generation, male reproduction, personification, science, still life, surgery, tools

Pierre Dionis conducting a dissection in the anatomy theatre of St. Cosmas. Instruments "pour la Lithotomie" (lithotomy)

Tags: dionis, dissection, lithotomy, male subject, naked., nude, surgery, theatre

Plate LVI. Surgery for the removal of the mammary gland.

Tags: bourgery, breast, cancer, hands, mastectomy, surgery, tools, tract

Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark

294 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 14 pages : frontispiece (portrait), plate ; (8vo)
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…

Tags: allegory, greco-roman, personification, popular, saint, statuary, surgical instruments, surgical tract, tools

Sarcoma of the female breast : based upon a study of one hundred and fifty-six cases

pages 18-37 : illustrations ; 24 cm
At head of title: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July, 1887

Tags: androgyny, breast cancer, mastectomy, sarcoma

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

Tags: chair, diderot, encyclopedie, family, restraint, young patient

Surgery: cancer of the breast.

Surgery: cancer of the breast, field operation, just before the final cut.
Plate L

Tags: breast, cancer, exposed, hemostatic clamps, knife, mastectomy, tools, veil

Surgery: surgical instruments for the amputation of limbs, including an amputation saw, bone nippers and cartilege forceps.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt fecit
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.…

Tags: nippers, surgery, tools