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Scultetus, Johannes (1595-1645) Armamentarium Chirurgicum.
The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1656 [engraved title dated 1657].
Octavo, engraved title and forty-three numbered full-page engravings and one text engraving; bound in full contemporary speckled calfskin binding with gilt-decorated spine, spine detached, a good candidate for restoration; some water staining, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
"Johannes Schultheiss (Latinized to ‘Scultetus') was one of the first academically trained physicians and surgeons in Germany in the 17th century. After his studies at the University of Padua under Adrian van Spieghel and Fabricius ab Aquapendente he became official physician of his home town of Ulm. His remarkable textbook on surgery, the ‘Armamentarium chirurgicum' was first published 10 years after his death and passed through many editions and translations all over Europe. This work contains a complete catalogue of surgical instruments, illustrated demonstrations of a variety of operative procedures and 100 case reports. The success of Scultetus' publication was responsible for an improved standard of the education of the non-academic barber surgeons, who were treating the majority of the population, and was a significant milestone for the development of surgery as an academic speciality." (cf. Dirk Schultheiss & Uro Jonas's "Johannes Scultetus," published in European Urology, December 1998; https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/19794#
