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Jean-Casimir-Félix Guyon holding up a gall-stone in a bottle after performing a lithotrity on a male patient, other doctors monitor the patient's condition

Tags: copy, costume, lithotomy, male patient, painting, print, still life, suits, surgery, tools

Surgical apparatus: a chair used for surgery. Engraving with etching.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 20 x 32.5 cm
Chirurgie Bears number: Suppl. pl.5, 148

Tags: chair, invention, print, surgery

An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman

lettering: L'anatomie du coeur ; E. Simonet Rom

Tags: anatomy, bowl, copy, dissection, female corpse, heart, jars, print, public domain, sponge, surgery, tools

Andreas Vesalius

"In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to publish the book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which many believe was…

Tags: androgyny, flayed, portrait, print, sculpture, tools, vesalius

Ambroise Paré using a ligature on an artery of an amputated leg of a soldier, during the Siege of Metz, 1553

1 print : photogravure ; platemark 16.8 x 24.5 cm
Lettering
Ambroise Paré pratiquant la ligature des artéres sur un amputé. (Siége de Metz - 1553). Salon de 1889. T. Chartran.

Tags: famouse, painting, portrait, print, salon, surgeon, surgery