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.

[Berlin] : [Idra-Verlagsanstalt], [1925]

1 print : process print, printed in colours ; image 17 x 12.5 cm

Caspar Stromayr (fl. 1559) specialised as a cutter of hernias and a coucher of cataracts in 16th century Germany. Written in 1559, the manuscript reproduced here existed primarily as a surgical work dealing with hernia, and included a section on the anatomy and surgery of the eye. It was rediscovered in 1909 and published in this facsimile edition under the direction of surgical historian, Walter von Brunn, in 1925

Wellcome Collection 568022i

Lettering on verso in German (typed and pasted) explains attribution of image