Treatment of an abscess in the forearm of Dutch East India Company naval Captain Joannes Marinus Pool. Injured by a splinter in battle, his inflamed arm was cured by insertion of a probe, and treated with compress and bandages. Pooll, Captain of the Wassenaer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Stewart after an illustration by John Bell from his own Principles of Surgery, as they Relate to Wounds, Ulcers and Fistulas, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815.

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