. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. chyrurgeon takes hold with his left hand,of the ends of the threads that were thrust through, and with his right hand hetakes the knife and with that he cutteth the canker out by the roots. Ill shews acanker cut from the breast weighing six physical pounds. IV shews how the chy-rurgeon, after the cutting off of a breast ulcerated, doth lightly cauterize the placewith a red-hot iron at least to corroborate the parts. Fis the instrument of HieromFabritius ab Aquapendente wherewith a fis
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. chyrurgeon takes hold with his left hand,of the ends of the threads that were thrust through, and with his right hand hetakes the knife and with that he cutteth the canker out by the roots. Ill shews acanker cut from the breast weighing six physical pounds. IV shews how the chy-rurgeon, after the cutting off of a breast ulcerated, doth lightly cauterize the placewith a red-hot iron at least to corroborate the parts. Fis the instrument of HieromFabritius ab Aquapendente wherewith a fistula of the thorax is perforated. VlisSostratus, his band, which is most convenient where the breast is affected with anydisease that requires binding. VII shews how Celsus cured the sticking forth ofthe navil by manual operation. VIII is a truss for the navil made of a doublecotton linneu cloth. THE ALCHEMISTS AND CHARLATANS. 187 uroscopists, Paracelsists, Jews, calf-doctors, executioners,crystallomancers (a class of people—chiefly Italian—whosought after crystals), mountebanks, vagrants, magicians,. Fig. 27.—Surgical, Operations on the breast, ftp.(From The Cliyrurgeona Store-house, by Johannes Scnltetus, 1674.) exorcists, monsters, rat-catchers, jugglers, and physicians were also at that time included inthis class. 188 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. Anatomy was now studied more from human bodies,and was authorized by statute. This was especially thecase in non-German institutions, to which for this reasonstudents flocked in great numbers. In Dresden, so earlyas 1617, there was a dissecting-room in which stuffedbirds, at that time a great rarity, and similar curiositieswere preserved. The study of anatomy was at a low ebbin Germany; so that when Rolfink, in 1629, arranged atJena, which was then the most popular German university,for two public dissections upon executed malefactors, it wasconsidered such an event that the very highest authoritieswere present
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