Study of the development of medicine over time

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Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.

Ortus sanitatis.

La chirurgia di M. Rolando da Parma detto dei Cappezzuti : riproduzione del codice latino n. 1382 della R. Biblioteca casanatense Roma / volgarizzamento e note del Giovanni Carbonelli.

Papyros Ebers : das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift / herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers. Mit hieroglyphisch-lateinischem Glossar, von Ludwig Stern. Mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium.

Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.

History of osteopathy : and twentieth-century medical practice / by E.R. Booth.

[Sōmatographia anthrōpinē (romanized form)] Or a description of the body of man. With the practise of chirurgery, and the use of three and fifty instruments [by Ambroise Paré]. By artificiall figures representing the members, and fit termes expressing the same. Set forth either to pleasure or to profit those who are addicted to this study / [Alexander Read].

Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik / von Julius Petersen.

Galen at the bedside : the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton.

The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century, according to Guglielmo da Saliceto, Italian surgeon / Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani.

Museum / by David Thomas and Mary Williamson ; designed by Michael Preston.

Reflections on Italian medical writings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Nancy G. Siraisi.

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History of Medicine

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Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik / von Julius Petersen.

Galen at the bedside : the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton.

The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century, according to Guglielmo da Saliceto, Italian surgeon / Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani.

Museum / by David Thomas and Mary Williamson ; designed by Michael Preston.

Reflections on Italian medical writings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Nancy G. Siraisi.

History of Medicine

Images from the collections

Images referencing History of Medicine

Works from the collections

Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik / von Julius Petersen.

Galen at the bedside : the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton.

The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century, according to Guglielmo da Saliceto, Italian surgeon / Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani.

Museum / by David Thomas and Mary Williamson ; designed by Michael Preston.

Reflections on Italian medical writings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Nancy G. Siraisi.

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