Browse Items · European Mastectomy

Péan

1 print : 16 x 11 cm.
Technique:
black and white

Tags: pean, photograph, physician, portrait, surgeon

[Valentine Mott]

Mott tracing phrenological data on a plaster head

Tags: mott, phrenology, physician, physiognomy, portrait, tools

Paul Camill Hippolyte Brouardel

photoprint

Tags: dissection, jars, knife, physician, portrait, surgery, transatlantic

An anatomical dissection taking place in a hall decorated with musclemen and human and animal skeletons in niches

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 39.9 x 21.1 cm
lettering: Bibliotheca anatomica Lettering on obelisks, left and right: Multum egerūt qui a(n)te nos fuerunt, sed non peregerūt, multumque restabit, nec ulli nato per mille secula praecludetur…

Tags: anatomy, ecorche, female corpse, frontispiece, hall, physicians, shears, surgery, tools, vesalius

An anatomical dissection by Reinier de Graaf, taking place in a room with a patient in bed

1 print : process print ; image 16 x 9.7 cm + calendar

Tags: dissection, inside, male corpse, patient, portrait, secrets, still life, surgery, tools

An anatomical dissection by Realdus Colombus, attended by onlookers

Collotype after a woodcut, 1559.
1 print : collotype ; image 28.2 x 20 cm
Lettering
Realdi Columbi Cremonensis, in almo gymnasio Romano anatomici celeberrimi, De re anatomica libri xv. Venetiis. Ex typographis Nicolai Bevilacquae. MDLIX

Tags: breast, dissection, gender ambiguity, hands, moor, personification, race, science, secrets, tools, touch

Syntagma anatomicum

1 print : engraving ; image 19.9 x 15.1 cm
Lettering
Ioannis Veslingii Mindani Syntagma anatomicum cum commentariis. Exhibente Gerardo Blasio. Medicinæ doctore, et professore. ; I. Vesling

Tags: arch, death, emblem, frontispiece, gentlemen, mastectomy, pincers, portraits, skeleton, surgery, tools, treatise