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Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.

Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.

A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.

Mastectomy. Drawing attributed to a Dutch artist, 17th century.

A Japanese physician applying moxa (a substance produced from leaves of various wormwoods) as a cautery: igniting it on the skin of a patient's back. Wood engraving.

A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating the liver?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.

The cure of Innocentius of Carthage: the prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo and others save Innocentius from painful surgery. Oil painting after Schelte Bolswert.

Pyrotechnie chirurgicale-pratique, ou l'art d'appliquer le feu en chirurgie / [Pierre-François Percy].

Two surgeons treating two seated male patients in a surgery, many surgeons' dishes are hanging from the ceiling. Line engraving by W. Kilian, 1652, after C. Ortz.

Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica de cauteriis actualibus seu de igne ut medicamento quam ... / defendet auctor Joannes Christophorus Spiritus.

M0001838: Reproduction of Anglo-Saxon surgery, an oil painting by Ernest Board

Considérations sur l'emploi du feu en médecine : suivies de l'exposé d'un moyen épispastique propre à suppléer la cautérisation, et à remplacer l'usage des cantharides, avec le Rapport de MM. Portal, Percy et Thénarde ... à l'Académie royale des sciences / par Louis-François Gondret.

Intorno alla gangrena secca e sull'uso del cauterio attuale nella medesima : ragionamento letto alla Reale Accademia di Lucca nella tornata de' 10 settembre 1841 / dal socio ordinario dott. Ermenegildo Tessandori.

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Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica de cauteriis actualibus seu de igne ut medicamento quam ... / defendet auctor Joannes Christophorus Spiritus.

Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.

M0001838: Reproduction of Anglo-Saxon surgery, an oil painting by Ernest Board

Considérations sur l'emploi du feu en médecine : suivies de l'exposé d'un moyen épispastique propre à suppléer la cautérisation, et à remplacer l'usage des cantharides, avec le Rapport de MM. Portal, Percy et Thénarde ... à l'Académie royale des sciences / par Louis-François Gondret.

Intorno alla gangrena secca e sull'uso del cauterio attuale nella medesima : ragionamento letto alla Reale Accademia di Lucca nella tornata de' 10 settembre 1841 / dal socio ordinario dott. Ermenegildo Tessandori.