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Ophthalmology instruments, eye growths, a cataract operation and other eye defects. Line engraving by R. Parr, 1743-45.
- Date:
- 1743-1745
- Reference:
- 16588i
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Description
Table 39: fig. 1 shows a needle and thread passed under an unguis (abcess), figs. 4-7 represent staphyloma, figs. 10-13 instruments to perforate the cornea in hypopyon, fig. 16 is a bandage to cure squint in children, figs. 14-15 show growths
Table 38 shows the position for the surgeon, patient and assistant for operation of cataract. The instruments were known to have been used by the Greeks and Albinus, Brisseau, Solingen and Cheselden
Publication/Creation
London : T. Osborne, 1743-1745.
Physical description
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 31 x 37.7 cm
Contributors
Notes
Ultimately after plates in Lorenz Heister's Institutiones chirurgicae, 1739
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16588i
Lettering note
Bears numbers : XXXVIII, XXXIX
Type/Technique
Languages
- Latin
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores