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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,…

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

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

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

Partial contents.--v. 1, p. xii-xvi. Joannis Zachariae Platneri Diss. de chirurgia artis medicae parente.--p. 210-222. [Joannis Mayow] Appendix de rachitide.--v. 2, p. 366-398. De gibbis, valgis, varis ... Marco Aurelio Severino.; vol. 1 only so…

"complete set" but still does not show cancer removal tools for mastectomies
4 volumes in 2, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)

1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.4 x 18.3 cm; Dedicated to Prudentia, the daughter of the painter Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), who was a nun in the convent of Saint Agatha in Florence; S. Agatha, virgo et martyr. Venerabili ac religiosae virgini…

1 print : photogravure, printed in colours ; image 12.6 x 7.7 cm; S. Agata, verg. e mart. Lunedi 5 Febbraio; On verso, biography of the saint and prayer in Italian with imprimatur dated Milan 1898

Pen drawing by ZS (?); Inscribed in ink: "Not to be used except by special permission HWL."; After: J. Scultetus, Armamentarium chirurgiae, Lyon 1603