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Part of the series "Les hommes d'aujourd'hui" (illustrations by Coll-Toc and text by Pierre et Paul)

Image shows Pean's fondly stroking his hemostatic clamps in front of an opening to a hospital with a coivered wagon and gated entrance, implying…

2 volumes (xliii, 586; vii, 603 pages; 103 pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Includes index in v. 2
Bibliography of William S. Halsted: v. 2, p. 535-563

Believed to be a fragment of an engraving printed from the original copperplate after it had ceased to be of use for printing engravings. The copper sheet was cut up and the top right corner, used to print the top left corner of the engraving, was…

Table XLII-XLIII
Table XLII. Instruments for operating on the mouth. Table XLIII. The removal of breast tumours.

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

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 30.3 x 37.8 cm
Table XLIV Table XLV / Table XLIII

An horrific omnium gatherum of the "heroic" medical and surgical treatments typical of establishment medicine around the time of the French Revolution. Two amputations are taking place. A friar holds a crucifix before the patient on the right. Near…

On this page of the Litany, a series of invocations to favored saints, the first saint appealed to is Saint Agatha: S[an]c[t]a Agatha ora pro nobis (Saint Agatha, pray for us). The pattern is followed for the prayers to Agnes, Cecilia, Lucy, and…

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collector's mark: Lugt 240
DescriptionBlad met vier ovale voorstellingen, elk met opschrift en datum in het Latijn: linksboven de Heilige Agatha wier borsten door een beul worden afgesneden, rechtsboven de Heilige Dorothea…