Portrait of Telephus being cured by the rust of the same spear that wounded him. Telephus is lying on the bed and two men are attending him. A young boy is holding the spear and one of the men is scraping rust from the spear. Text in English,...
Portrait of Thomas Sydenham. In the foreground are a caduceus, a jar, a book, and other objects. Painted by P. Lely and engraved by J. Houbraken. Text: "In the possession of John Sydenham, Esqr." Attached note indicates that Sydenham was famous...
Trephine or Trepan was a surgical instrument used to open the cranium. It was essentially a device to drill a circular hole in the head. The example pictured here had perpendicular teeth, a center pin and a screw button in the shaft of the barrel...
Single female ivory anatomical manikin of seventeenth or eighteenth century European origin. Plate has been removed to reveal the contents of her thorax and abdomen.