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A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.

Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].

Ancient anatomists in discussion around a cadaver. Engraving by G. Appelmans, 1674.

The Fasciculo di medicina, Venice, 1493 / with an introduction etc., by Charles Singer.

A man standing, anterior view with brain and contents of thorax and abdomen exposed. Engraving by Giulio de' Musi, by 1552, first published in 1714.

The works of Aristotle : in four parts. Containing I. His complete master-piece ... II. His complete and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. HIs last legacy / [Aristotle].

An anatomical dissection taking place in a hall decorated with musclemen and human and animal skeletons in niches. Engraving with etching, 1685.

Frederici Dekkers ... Exercitationes practicae circa medendi methodum, auctoritate, ratione, observationibusve plurimis confirmatae ac figuris illustratae ... / Editio altera priori duplò auctior.

Friderici Hoffmanni consiliarii regis Borussiae intimi, et archiatri ... Opera omnia physico-medica denuò revisa, correcta et aucta, in sex tomos distributa, quibus continentur doctrinae solidis principiis physico-mechanicis, et anatomicis, atque etiam observationibus clinico-practicis superstructae. Methodo facili ac demonstrativa deductae, & per experientiam LVII. annorum stabilitae : Cum vita auctoris [by J. H. Schultze] et ejus praefatione de differente medicinae et medicorum statu. Atque conditione, & criteriis boni ac periti medici / [Friedrich Hoffmann].

Bath memoirs: or, observations in three and forty years practice, at the Bath : what cures have been there wrought, (both by bathing and drinking these waters by God's blessing, on the directions of Robert Peirce, Dr. in physick, and Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, a constant inhabitant in Bath, from the year 1653. to this present year 1697.

Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô, or, An account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinæ : more particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts : wherein also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured : and lastly, a new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military chirurgeon, in two letters : the one to his most honoured, James Pearse, Esq, chirurgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and chirurgeon general to His Majestie's Navy Royal : the other, to Mr. Thomas Hobbs, chirurgeon in London / by James Yonge.

An inquiry into the state of medicine, on the principles of inductive philosophy. With an appendix; containing Practical Cases and Observations. By Robert Jones, M.D.

The English physitian enlarged : with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this : being an astrologo-phisical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies.

Vida y milagros de un pícaro del siglo XVI : biografía del bachiller Juan Méndez Nieto / Carlos Rico-Avello.

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An inquiry into the state of medicine, on the principles of inductive philosophy. With an appendix; containing Practical Cases and Observations. By Robert Jones, M.D.

Vida y milagros de un pícaro del siglo XVI : biografía del bachiller Juan Méndez Nieto / Carlos Rico-Avello.