| 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 |