Opera observationum et curationum medico-chirurgicarum, quae exstant omnia
This is a 1682 Frankfurt collection of medical and surgical case observations and cures by the physician-surgeon Wilhelm Fabry von Hilden, held by a Paris university health library. Its pictures are plain black-and-white woodcut-style engravings of surgical instruments such as forceps, tongs and a calculus hook, with a heraldic cartouche, and a designer might take their crisp contour linework and hatched shading as a model for technical diagrams.










