1478 GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); PANIS, Nicolaus

Chirurgia [French]. Translated by Nicolaus Panis.

Guy de Chauliac studied medicine and surgery in Montpellier and Paris, and served as the personal physician to Popes Clement VI, Innocent VI and Urban V. His Chirurgia magna, written in the early 1360s, remained a sta…

GMN 3666.83 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5376

1500 –1501 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي‎), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187); IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – ); AMMAR AL MAWSILĪ, Abu'l -l Kāsim (1050 – ); MARROCHINUS, Dominicus ( – 1300); CANAMUSALI DE BALDACH (1220 – )

Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum (Tr: Gerardus Cremonensis). IN: Guy de Chauliac: Chirurgia parva. Add: Albulcasis: Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum. Jesus filius Hali: De oculis (Tr: Dominicus Marrochinus). Canamusali de Baldach: De oculis.

The surgical section of Albucasis’s Altasrif, the first rational, complete and illustrated treatise on surgery and surgical instruments. The author was an Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus. Dur…

GMN 3666.82 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5371

1564 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)

Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.

Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in amputations, one of h…

GMN 3668.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6937

1655 SCHULTES, Johannes [SCULTETUS] (1595 – 1645)

Χειροπλοθήκη seu armamentarium chirurgicum.

Scultetus is famous for his illustrations of surgical procedures and both surgical and dental instruments. With respect to dentistry he describes and illustrates stomatological operations and includes fine illustratio…

GMN 3669.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6982

1828 MAURY, J. C. F. (pseudonym of Auguste Tillet); TILLET, Auguste

Traité complet de l’art du dentiste, d'après l'état actuel des connaissances. Par F. Maury. 2 vols.

Maury probably invented the dental probe. His book also shows one of the earliest illustrations of a dental mouth mirror. According to Quérard, F. Maury is the pseudonym of Auguste Tillet: "Table alphabétique de la pl…

GMN 3679.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5611

1860 SNOWDON & BROTHER

Illustrated wholesale catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, medical saddle bags, abdominal supporters, shoulder braces and druggists sundries, offered by Snowden & Brother.

Snowden & Brother provided an excellent selection of the exact types of equipment used by the Union Army during the Civil War. Facsimile reprint, with John Weiss & Son 1863 catalogue, with a new introduction by James …

GMN 10495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12688

1876 WHITE, Samuel Stockton (1822 – 1879)

Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc.

White, who characterized himself as "Manufacturer, importer, and wholesale dealer in all articles appertaining to dentistry," was the leading U.S. manufacturer of dental supplies during the 19th century. His 1876 cata…

GMN 10494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12687