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Scultetus, Johannes (1595-1645) L'Arcenal de Chirurgie.
Lyon: A. Cellier, 1672.
First edition in French, quarto, illustrated with added engraved title, large arms of dedicatee, and forty-nine plates (plate count is not accurate: plate forty-two is repeated; two unnumbered full-paged plates of a child with birth deformities); bound in contemporary speckled sheep, blind tooled in gilt, neatly rebacked, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Illustrations in this work begin with surgical tools and devices, progressing to instructive images to aid doctors when setting broken limbs, performing trepanation, and surgical solutions to a variety of ailments, with explanatory text. The frontispiece depicts the surgeon at work, the patient held by ropes in his pain.
