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…
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…
6 unnumbered pages, 380, 4 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 80 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: RAMC Note: Publisher's catalogues (6p),(8p) on front and end endpapers
Copy 2 Note: Publisher's cat. and adverts. at front and…
Illustration shows the excision of a cancerous growth from a woman's breast, an operation which Hanaoka Seishu first carried out in 1804 using general anasthetic
Kamata Keishu, a pupil of the renowned surgeon Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835),…