Stories
- Article
The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
- In pictures
The original drama of operating theatres
Medicine as ‘theatre’ began in the 16th century, when paying audiences enjoyed candlelight, live music – and a cadaver being dissected in front of them, all the in name of education.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Moreau, René (1587-1656), Paris professor of surgery and hygiene
Date: 1656Reference: MS.7339/7Part of: Miscellany: French, 16th & 17th centuries
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0008320: Bullet extractors, mid 16th century.
Date: October 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/72/51Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it. Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925.
Stromayr, Caspar.Date: [1925]Reference: 568022i- Books
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A catalogue of the entire libraries of Dr. Rathbone and Mr. A. Geekie, surgeon, (both deceas'd.) Consisting of the choicest and most valuable books in almost all languages and faculties, viz. Physick, Surgery, Chymistry, Mathematicks, Trade, Gardening, Voyages, History, Antiquity, Divinity, Poetry, Dictionaries, Lexicons, &c. in Greek, Latin, Italian, French, &c. Among many other equally good are, Folio. Biyle's Dict. 5 vol. Collier's Dict. 4 vol. Dictionaire de Morery, avec la Supplement, 6 vol. Rapin's Hist. of Engl. 2 vol. Kennet's Hist. of Engl. 3 vol. Fuller's Worthies. S. Chrysostomi Opera Gr. 8 tom. Locke's Works, 3 vol. Tillotson's Works, 3 vol. Pozzo's Perspective. Religious Ceremonies, 5 vol. Bloome's Hist. of the Bible. Quarto. Atlas Geographus, 5 vol. Philosoph. Transactions, 12 vol. Treatise of Monies, &c. Pomet of Druggs. Thesaur. Ling. Sanctae, per Robertson. Del Tesoro Britan. di Haym. Versailles Imortalise de Monicart. avec fig. Tyson's Anatomy of a Pygmie, &c. Octavo, &c. Tillotson's Works, 21 vol. Plutarch's Lives, 5 vol. South's Sermons, 7 vol. Hutchinson's Works, 8 vol. Medical Essays, 4 vol. Edinburgh Drake's Anatomy, 3 vol. Ashmole's Antiq. of Berkshire, large Paper, 3 vol. Prideaux's Connection, 4 vol. Nature display'd, 4 vol. Spectator, 3 vol. Cleopatra, 8 vol. Seneca Opera Gronovij, 4 tom. Which will begin to be sold, (the Prices being mark'd to each Book in the Catalogue) on Thursday the 16th, of this instant October 1740, by William Sare, bookseller, opposite the Bagnio in Long Acre.
Sare, William.Date: 1740]- Books
Richard Seymer's Golden workes of phisecke & surgury (ca. 1576) : an edition with introduction and glossary / by Phillip Martin Teigen.
Seymer, Richard, active 16th century.Date: [1976]