Instrumentarium Chirurgicum Viennense. FIRST EDITION

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2 leaves, 159 pp; 65 plates. Folio. Contemporary 3/4-leather and pastepaper boards. Some worming in spine. Corners of covers worn. Internally very clean. First Edition. A "magnificent work on surgical instruments, the most extensive illustrated work on the subject of its time, depicting over 600 surgical and dental instruments in their original size. There are numerous illustrations of catheters, gynaecological instruments such as vaginal and anal specula, surgical scissors and knives, instruments used in trepanation, amputation, cauterization, lithotomy, ophthalmology, etc., mirrors, needles and syringes including the necessary utensils for injecting smoke tobacco in rectum. In the introduction Brambilla gives a history of surgery and surgical instruments from antiquity to his own time, selecting the instruments from the best sources…. Most of the instruments were collected by Brambilla to embellish the display shelves of the Josephinum", the first medico-surgical academy in central Europe, founded by Brambilla (Hagelin, Rare and Important Medical Books in the Library of Karolinska Institute, pp. 134-35). Ricci, The Development of Gynaecological Surgery and Instruments, pp. 213-16. Castiglioni, History of Medicine, 2d ed., p. 625. Garrison, History of Medicine, 4th ed., p. 396. Seller Inventory # 13658

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