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A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 46.4 x 27.4 cm

Tags: allegory, anatomy, cupids, death, personification, saw, surgery, time, veil

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

The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen

1 print : engraving ; platemark 21 x 16.4 cm
Lettering
Felicis Plateri quondam archiatri et profess. Basil. ord. praxeos medicæ, tomi tres, cum centuria posthuma emedati et aucti, à Felice Platero, nunc archiatro et profess. Basileen. Fel. Nep.…

Tags: frontispiece, galen, hippocrates, knives, mastectomy, pincers, still life, table, tools, treatise

Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers

1 print : woodcut ; image 35.2 x 24.3 cm

Tags: blank, breast, copy, female corpse, frontispiece, operating theatre, skeleton, stereotype, tools, touch, vesalius

Surgical instruments: 91 figures, including an operating table and an adjustable bed

1 print : line engraving ; image, border and lettering 21.1 x 26 cm
lettering: I ; Taf. 140 ; B.8. ; G. Heck dirt. ; Henry Winkles sculpt.

Tags: chair, knives, nippers, pincers, shears, 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

A surgeon shows a gentleman his surgery: the room contains a human skeleton, écorché figures, rows of jars and a variety of medical instruments

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.5 x 22.7 cm

Tags: death, ecorche, eyes, gentlemen, instruction, jars, mastectomy, portrait, shears, skeleton, surgery, tools

Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies

1 print : engraving ; image 28.4 x 16.1 cm
Lettering
Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.

Tags: anatomy, frontispiece, jewish, mastectomy, operating theatre, shears, tools, treatise