Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 466

JOHANNES SCULTETUS (1595-1645) Cheiroplotheke [Greek transliterated] . . . Armamentarium chirurgicum XLIII. Typis & impensis Balthasari Kühnen 1655 10, 132 [3] pp., 43 plates. 36.7 cm.

Scultetus, born at Ulm on the Danube, was a pupil of Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Adriaan van de Spiegel at Padua where he received a doctorate in medicine, surgery, and philosophy. He eventually settled in Ulm as the city physician after having practiced for a time in Padua and Vienna. His "arsenal of surgery" was published a decade after his death by his nephew, Scultetus the Younger, who edited Scultetus' notes and issued them along with the excellent engravings. The work contains accounts of surgical instruments, methods of bandaging and splinting, numerous operative procedures (including amputation of the breast), obstetrical delivery by forceps, and one hundred of his case reports.

Cited references: Cushing S172 (1665 ed.); Garrison-Morton 5571; Waller 8792

Gift of John Martin, M.D.