Thomæ Fieni, Belgii & Bavariæ ducum medici cubicularii, Et In Academia Lovaniensi Medicinae Professoris Primarii, Libri chirurgici duodecim, de præcipuis artis chirurgicæ controversiis, viz. I. De Trepano, five apertione cranii. II. De Depositione cataractae. III. De Depositione ungulae. IV. De Laryngotomia, five sectione asperae arteriae. V. De Paracentesi thoracis. VI. De Paracentesi abdominis. Vii. De Arteriotomia, five sectione arteriae. Viii. De Hysterotomatocia, five sectione foetûs ex utero viventis matris. IX. De sectione calculi. X. De sectione herniae. XI. De amputatione membrorum externorum. XII. De nasi amputati ex carne brachii restitutione. Opera posthuma Hermanni Conringii cura edita.

Date

MDCCXXXIII. [1733]

Sunday reading. The parable of the ten talents.

Date

[1797?]

Joseph is dragged out of the pit and sold to some passing Midianites. Etching.

Joseph is sold by his brothers. Etching.

Joseph is dragged from the pit and sold by his brothers to a company of passing Midianites. Line engraving by G. de Jode.

Ananias drops dead after having secretly withheld part of his wealth from the communal fund of the apostles. Engraving after Raphael.

Ananias drops dead after having secretly withheld part of his wealth from the communal fund of the apostles. Colour process print after Raphael.

Ananias drops dead after having secretly withheld part of his wealth from the communal fund of the apostles. Engraving after Raphael.

A drunken satyr cavorts atop the globe; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching after J. Smies, c. 1800.