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Mediaeval torturers torture a gout-sufferer; representing the view attributed to Fabricius von Hilden that gout could be cured by torture. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.

Guglielmus Fabricius of Hilden. Line engraving.

Guglielmus Fabricius of Hilden. Line engraving by N. v. A., 1627.

Guglielmus Fabricius (Wilhelm Fabry) of Hilden. Line engraving by C. Ammon, 1650.

Two pieces of apparatus that are used to manipulate dislocated shoulders and jaws back into the correct position, apparently conceived by W. Fabricius Hildanus. Etching by J. Bell.

Wilhelm Fabry von Hilden, 1560-1634 : Verzeichnis der Werke und des Briefwechsels / Verena Schneider-Hiltbrunner.

Fabrystudien.

Wilhelm Fabry von Hilden : Leben, Gestalt, Wirken / [Heinrich Strangmeier].

Natura artis magistra / by A. van Enk.

Guilhelmi Fabricii Hildani ... Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum centuriae, nunc primum in unum opus congestae, ac in duo volumina distributae. Quorum prius continet centurias I. II. & III / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

Opera quae extant omnia, partim antehac excusa, partim nunc recens in lucem edita / omnia ab authore recognita, multisque in locis, tum epistolis novis, aucta ... ; additus quoque ob materiae similitudinem Marci Aurelii Severini.

A treatise on the high operation for the stone ... / By William Cheselden.

Observationum et curationum cheirurgicarum centuria tertia. Epistolis nonnullis virorum doctissimorum, nec non instrumentis cheirurgicis, ab authore inventis illustrata. Accessit epistola, de nova ... herniae uterinae, et partus Caesarei historia ... scripta, a M. Doringio. Item authoris ad hunc responsio epistolica / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum centuriae, nunc primum in unum opus congestae, ac in duo volumina distributae. Quorum prius continet centurias I. II. et III.

Selectae observationes chirurgicae quinque et viginti. Item de gangraena et sphacelo tractatus methodicus / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

De dysenteria liber unus, in quo hujus morbi causae, signa, prognostica, et praeservatio continentur / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

Consilium, in quo de conservanda valetudine, item, de thermis Vallesianis, et acidulis Griesbachcensibus, earum facultatibus et usu succincte agitur ... Accessit epistola ad Paulum Croquerum ... in qua de thermis Piperinis, et nonnullis aliis ... agitur ... / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

Lithotomia vesicæ: that is, An accurate description of the stone in the bladder : shewing the causes and pathognomicall signes thereof, and chiefely of the method whereby it is to be artificially taken out both of men and women, by section. Wherein severall wayes of operation are described, and the chirurgicall instruments lively delineated. Written first in High Dutch by Gulielmus Fabritius Hildanus ... Afterward augmented by the author, and first translated into Latin by his scholler and communer Henricus Schobingerus Sangalthensis; and now done into English by N.C. ... With better instruments than heretofore.

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Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum centuriae, nunc primum in unum opus congestae, ac in duo volumina distributae. Quorum prius continet centurias I. II. et III.

Selectae observationes chirurgicae quinque et viginti. Item de gangraena et sphacelo tractatus methodicus / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

De dysenteria liber unus, in quo hujus morbi causae, signa, prognostica, et praeservatio continentur / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

Consilium, in quo de conservanda valetudine, item, de thermis Vallesianis, et acidulis Griesbachcensibus, earum facultatibus et usu succincte agitur ... Accessit epistola ad Paulum Croquerum ... in qua de thermis Piperinis, et nonnullis aliis ... agitur ... / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

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Wilhelm Fabry

Images from the collections

Images by Wilhelm Fabry

Images featuring Wilhelm Fabry

Works from the collections

Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum centuriae, nunc primum in unum opus congestae, ac in duo volumina distributae. Quorum prius continet centurias I. II. et III.

Selectae observationes chirurgicae quinque et viginti. Item de gangraena et sphacelo tractatus methodicus / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

De dysenteria liber unus, in quo hujus morbi causae, signa, prognostica, et praeservatio continentur / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

Consilium, in quo de conservanda valetudine, item, de thermis Vallesianis, et acidulis Griesbachcensibus, earum facultatibus et usu succincte agitur ... Accessit epistola ad Paulum Croquerum ... in qua de thermis Piperinis, et nonnullis aliis ... agitur ... / [Wilhelm Fabricius Hildanus].

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