Chirurgia magna
Chirurgia magna is a 1585 surgical treatise by the medieval French surgeon Guy de Chauliac, printed in Lyon for medical students and practising surgeons. Its pictures are small woodcut diagrams of surgical instruments, labelled with letters and set in plain black line, with a decorative headpiece for the seventh treatise, and a designer could take from them the clarity of labelled technical drawing and the way a precise line conveys hard metal objects.
