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Ambroise Paré, as an apprentice barber-surgeon in a busy shop in Paris
1 print : wood engraving ; image 10.8 x 16 cm
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Ambroise Paré apprenti-barbier, chirurgien a Paris. J. Ansseau. Morin.
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Ambroise Paré apprenti-barbier, chirurgien a Paris. J. Ansseau. Morin.
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
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Ambroise Paré pratiquant la ligature des artéres sur un amputé. (Siége de Metz - 1553). Salon de 1889. T. Chartran.
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Ambroise Paré pratiquant la ligature des artéres sur un amputé. (Siége de Metz - 1553). Salon de 1889. T. Chartran.
Ambroise Paré 1517-1590
Photograph of a painting of French barber surgeon Ambroise Paré, standing over an ailing patient with a soldier to his left and an assistant to his right.
1 photograph : 26 x 21 cm
1 photograph : 26 x 21 cm
Ambroise Paré
1 print : engraving, with watercolour
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
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Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.
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Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.
Adieu les Amourettes!!
1 print : 33 x 26 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color
Technique:
lithograph, color
Abridged Version of "De arte phisicali de cirurgia", "Fistula in ano", Including an Obstetrical Treatise.
Manuscript X 188 in the National Library of Sweden dates to around 1425--35 and contains two works by John Arderne (active 1307--70), an abridged version of De arte phisicali et de cirurgia (Of the physical arts and surgery) and Fistula in ano. Also…
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
A votre tour: Calmez par un regard anodin
1 print : 33 x 25 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color
Technique:
lithograph, color
A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them
The Opposition politicians are represented as quacks beguiling the people with advocacy of reform and clamour against corruption in high places. Samuel Whitbread stands on a platform holding a placard inscribed "Infallible panacea-Reform"; in his…