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Edinburgh, Greyfriars churchyard: the tomb of James Borthwick of Stow, carved with a skeleton and surgical instruments
1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 12.5 x 10.3 cm
Cyclopædia: or, an Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
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…
Medicina Aphoristica
The titlepage shows Eve and Adam cast out of paradise from various characters. A figure with a laurel wreath and caduceus in hand pulls Eve by the hair
De Medicina (On Medicine)
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
Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656
Tongue depressor, forceps for seton in children, needles, and cautery iron contained within a long cannula. For descriptions of the instruments, see H. Fabricius ab Aquapendente, De chirurgicis operationibus, in his Opera chirurgica, Padua: F.…
Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps, made by Isaac Grenier; advertising his goods for sale.
1 print : etching ; platemark 16.1 x 11.6 cm
lettering: At the signe of the tare live's one Mr Grenier who makes all sorts of good rasors, lancets, sisers very well and all other sorts of instruments for chirugeons ; H. Neutte [?] f. A.o 1698
lettering: At the signe of the tare live's one Mr Grenier who makes all sorts of good rasors, lancets, sisers very well and all other sorts of instruments for chirugeons ; H. Neutte [?] f. A.o 1698
Surgical instruments, including lancets, saws and forceps; advertising the work of the surgical instrument-maker J. Songy
1 print : etching ; sheet 23.3 x 17.5 cm
lettering: Jaques Songy ; mt. coustelier a Paris faict de bonnes lancetters, rasoirs, trepan et aures fermants servant aux chiruigiens et barbiers demeurant Rue des Petit Champs a lanseigne du grand…
lettering: Jaques Songy ; mt. coustelier a Paris faict de bonnes lancetters, rasoirs, trepan et aures fermants servant aux chiruigiens et barbiers demeurant Rue des Petit Champs a lanseigne du grand…