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2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to); also edition without the surgery of breast cancer

2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to); this volume does not include surgical tools for breast cancer removal or the "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne), images show the surgeon present and not-present with tools

Surgical treatise explaining use of "tenaculum helvetianum" (tenette helvétienne) used prominently in images of Saint Agatha to torture the saint, pp. 153-155 and folding plate f.p. 153

The operator excises the breast with the "tenaculum helvetianum", presumably to remove breast cancer. His assistant has a case of lancets etc. attached to his belt. A set of cautery irons is smouldering on a stand on the left. The patient is seated,…