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SCULTETUS, JOHANNES, the Elder. L'Arcenal de Chirurgie . . . Nouvellement traduit en François par un célèbre Médecin . . . avec un Traité des Accouchemens, naturels & contre nature;la Description de deux Monstres humains, & une Dissertation sur un autre Monstre, né à Lyon le 28 de Septembre 1702. 17 engraved plates on 16 leaves; 35 illustrations, all but the last full-page. [16], 399, [1], 361-369, [3]; 138, [22] pages, including engraved additional title. 4to, 18th-century 1/4 calf, paste-paper boards, rebacked retaining original backstrip; occasional even browning, stain on 2H3 (with illustration on verso), a few plates or illustrations discolored. Lyon: Léonard de la Roche, 1712
First published in 1655 in Latin, " . . . a complete catalogue of all known surgical instruments of the period, of the methods of bandaging and splinting, and of a vast number of operative procedures" (Norman). This translation includes accounts of 3 monstrosities, with illustrations. Garrison-Morton 5571; Heirs of Hippocrates 466; Norman 1912 (all citing the original edition).
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