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Concept

Cautery

Images

  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • Mastectomy. Drawing attributed to a Dutch artist, 17th century.
  • A Japanese physician applying moxa (a substance produced from leaves of various wormwoods) as a cautery: igniting it on the skin of a patient's back. Wood engraving.
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Catalogue

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    [Bloodless surgical operations in Byzantium : some early evidence of advanced surgery] / by John Lascaratos.

    Laskaratos, Iōannēs G. | Date: 1994
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    Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica de cauteriis actualibus seu de igne ut medicamento quam ... / defendet auctor Joannes Christophorus Spiritus.

    Spiritus, Johann Christoph. | Date: [1784]
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    Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.

    | Reference: 22307i
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    M0001838: Reproduction of Anglo-Saxon surgery, an oil painting by Ernest Board

    | Date: 31 March 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/30
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    Considérations sur l'emploi du feu en médecine : suivies de l'exposé d'un moyen épispastique propre à suppléer la cautérisation, et à remplacer l'usage des cantharides, avec le Rapport de MM. Portal, Percy et Thénarde ... à l'Académie royale des sciences / par Louis-François Gondret.

    Gondret, Louis-François, 1776-1855. | Date: 1818
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