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FIG. 18. CONSULTATION BY THREE PHYSICIANS UPON A CASE OF WOUND IN THE CHEST.
(From a woodcut in the Surgery of Hieronymus Brunschwig, Strassburg, 1508.)
This treatise, which was written by the author in 1497, passed through nine successive
editions, the last one in 1539. Probably no woodcuts of a higher order of merit than those
represented in this and the two following illustrations (Figs. XIX and XX) are to be found in
medical literature.
- ler Wund Artzeny," was first published in 1497, when he
was already an old man, and it passed through nine editions during the following forty-two years. It was also twice translated into English. Up to the time of the discovery
