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Surgical and pathological illustrations from a 16th century manuscript - breast cancer

Black and white postcard featuring Jean Martin Charcot demonstating a hypnosis on "hysterical" female patient who is supported by another doctor, Joseph Babinski. The nurse is standing next to them, ready to help if needed.

1 postcard : 14 x 9 cm

1 print : 33 x 26 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color

1 print : 33 x 26 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color

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

The name of God in Hebraic characters, surrounded by the Apostles, and with other Christian saints standing below; illustration to an unidentified book, page 201 or 203, with letterpress text printed in red and black on verso
Engraving
Height:…

Church martyrs, with in the foreground St Agatha, tied to a stake and having her breasts cut by an executioner; beyond, at right, St Tryphon, hanging upside down from a tree, and Sts Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded; at left, St Abdon and Sennen…

1 print : 33 x 25 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color

The three named quacks occupy the top of the shield, twelve other 'doctors' are situated in the lower half; most of them have gold canes held up to their noses, one is dipping his finger into a urinal while another holds it. Two pairs of crossed…