L'arcenal de chirurgie : ouvrage posthume, egalement utile, & necessaire a ceux qui professent la medecine, & la chirurgie : divise en deux parties. La premiere, fait voir en 46 tables en taille douce les instrumens, & raporte la maniere de s'en servir. La seconde contient 103 observations chirurgicales : avec trois tables, ou indices, scavoir des instrumens, des observations, & des choses plus remarquables : avec la description d'un monstre humain expose a Lyon le 5. de Mars 1671

Johannes Scultetus; Franccois Deboze

Lyon : De l'imprimerie d'Antoine Galien, 1672

[17th Century French Medicine: Instrument Illustration] Quarto, (22 x 16.5 cm; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in).  Bound in contemporary speckled sheep.  Neat reback, with original spine retained.  Good binding and cover.  Additional engraved title, engraved arms and 49 full-page engraved illustrations in text (plate forty-two is repeated; also includes two unnumbered plates of childhood deformities).  Illustration of the pre-anesthetic era of medicine, where ropes are restraints are pictured in use with patients.  Surgical tools of the day: saws, cutting tools, trepanation, and cauterization are depicted.  Quite graphic.  Garrison-Morton-Norman 3669.1 (1655 edition).