La medicina pittoresca o museo medico-chirurgico

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Italian listing translates into English as approximately
*Picturesque medicine or medical-surgical museum: Accompanied by a hundred tables of general anatomy, descriptive, surgical and pathological, internal and external pathology, operative medicine, obstetrics, medicines and therapies.*

One volume is visual catalogue of engraved illustrations often coloured with watercolour, organised in numbered *Tavola* (tables); platemark 30.5 x 20.4 cm. Minimal written text. 196 pages including covers. Composition of a page typically combines image of human pathology or particular body part with surgical interventions alongside more-than-human sources of healing intervention.

Other volumes are extensive pages of well organised text with cross reference to visual tavola (tables). These are listed in two ways: *Tavola Anelitica Delle Materie* (Analytic table of materials) and *Tavola Alfabetica Delle Materie* (an alphabetical listing). Repeated text headings are anatomy, therapy, pathology and *storia naturale medica* (medicines of the natural world/natural history).

Full digitised edition available thanks to Wellcome Library.

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