LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Fig. 1. View of the Temple of Aesculapius on the Island of Cos facing page 52
Fig. 2. Bird’s-eye View of the Temple of Aesculapius and Associated Buildings on the Island of Cos facing page 54
Fig. 3. Ground Plan of the Asclepieion on the Island of Cos facing page 55
Fig. 4. Ancient Statue of the God Aesculapius in the Berlin Museum facing page 62
Fig. 5. Head of the Marble Statue of the God Aesculapius in the Naples Museum facing page 62
Fig. 6. Bas-relief of Aesculapius, Accompanied by Women and Children, in the Presence of an Enormous Serpent facing page 68
Fig. 7. Female Bust Showing Cancer of One Breast facing page 68
Fig. 8. Paralysis of the Left Facial Nerve facing page 70
Fig. 9. The Oldest Known Pictorial Representation of a Formal Dissection of the Human Body facing page 280
Fig. 10. The Manner of Giving Public Instruction in Medicine during the Middle Ages 281
Fig. 11. Henri de Mondeville facing page 288
Fig. 12. One of the Wards in the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris facing page 304
Fig. 13. The Physician, the Surgeon and the Pharmacist facing page 306
Fig. 14. Andreas Vesalius facing page 344
Fig. 15. William Harvey facing page 380
Fig. 16. “The Lovesick Maiden” facing page 412
Fig. 17. Thomas Sydenham facing page 418
Fig. 18. Consultation by Three Physicians upon a Case of Wound in the Chest 457
Fig. 19. Barber Surgeon (Wundarzt) Extracting an Arrow from a Wounded Soldier’s Chest while the Battle is Still in Progress 461
Fig. 20. Amputation of the Leg 463
Fig. 21. The Manner in Which the So-called Tagliacotian Operation for Repairing a Defective Nose Should be Carried Out 480
Fig. 22. Pierre Franco’s Forceps for Crushing Calculi in the Urinary Bladder 497
Figs. 23–24. Forceps Devised in 1552 by Ambroise Paré for Drawing Out the Cut Ends of Arteries after the Amputation of a Limb, and Holding Them while the Ligature is Being Applied 512
Fig. 25. Ambroise Paré the Famous French Surgeon of the Sixteenth Century facing page 514
Fig. 26. Frère Jacques de Beaulieu facing page 550
Fig. 27. Jean Baseilhac, commonly Known in France as Frère Côme facing page 552
Fig. 28. Concealed Lithotome Invented by Frère Côme in 1748 553