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This version discusses tumors and its cures. The frontispiece shows a physician pulling a folly stone from a naked man while in the background framed by an architectural structure, a female statue stands with the caduceus

1 print : 34 x 26 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color

1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
photogravure

See in the 1741 cylcopaedia a line for "surgery" to see "chirurgery". Under "Chirurgery" it states that it is "popularly called Surgery, the third branch of medicine; consisting in operations performed by the hand, for the cure of wounds, and other…

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…

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

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…

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:…

lxxxii pages, 1 leaf, 903 pages : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations ; 27 cm

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…