Cheirurgia

Cheirurgia

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Geiger, Malachias, 1606-1671 author
Contributor(s):
Kilian, Wolfgang, artist
Publication:
Monachii: Lucam Straub, 1652
Language(s):
Latin
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Bloodletting
Patients
Physicians
Physician Assistants
Genre(s):
Book Illustrations
Abstract:
Interior view of a barber-surgeon's establishment: two men are receiving minor surgical treatment; bloodletting basins and jars of leeches are hanging from the ceiling. Two pets (dog and cat?) are resting, one under a table, in the foreground.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Related Title(s):
Is part of: Microcosmus hypochondriacus; sive, De melancholia hypochondriaca tractatus, opp. p. 212.; (DNLM)2352066R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
engraving
NLM Unique ID:
101436636 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A013454
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436636