Cheiroplotheke (Greek) seu Armamentarium chirurgicum. Opus posthumum . . - In quo tot, tam veterum ac recentiorum instrumenta ab authore correcta, quam noviter ab ipso inventa. . . Nunc primum in lucem editum
by SCULTETUS, Johannes
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Norman 1912; Heirs of Hippocrates 466; Garrison-Morton 5571; NLM/Krivatsy 10746; Waller 8792; VD 17, 39:153208L - RARE FIRST EDITION of the Armamentarium (Arsenal of Surgery), a work of lasting importance, published a decade after the author's death by his nephew, Johannes Scultetus the Younger. Numerous editions in quarto and octavo followed but none others in folio with plates on this grand scale. Scultetus (or Schultes), pupil of Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Adriaan van de Spiegel at Padua, himself city physician of Ulm, was rivalled only by Fabry von Hilden as the leading surgeon in Germany. Scultetus invented many new surgical devices and bandages, among them the many-tailed "Scultetus bandages" used for abdominal wounds. His Armamentarium gives a complete picture of 17th-century surgical practice. Of the 43 large engravings, 22 form a comprehensive catalogue of all known surgical instruments of the period, while the rest illustrate the brutal methodology of operations dealing with broken or dislocated limbs, amputations, cancers, obstetrical delivery by forceps, eye problems, tooth extractions and even neurosurgery, with special attention to bandaging. One hundred case reports are included in the text.
The second bound-in work is a later edition in Latin of Browne's Compleat Treatise of the Muscles. John Browne, physician to Charles II, James II, and William III, was surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. His treatise on the muscles was plagiarised from the works of Casserio and Molins, but is the first such book in which the names of the muscles are printed on the figures. References: NLM/Krivatsy 1827; Wellcome II p.251. - Visit our website to see more images!
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- Cheiroplotheke (Greek) seu Armamentarium chirurgicum. Opus posthumum . . - In quo tot, tam veterum ac recentiorum instrumenta ab authore correcta, quam noviter ab ipso inventa. . . Nunc primum in lucem editum
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- SCULTETUS, Johannes
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- Balthasar Kühnen
- Place of Publication
- Ulm
- Date Published
- 1655
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- Medicine, surgery
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- Medicine;
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