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Infusio simplex in brutis

About This Item

Title

Infusio simplex in brutis

Subject

Injections, Intravenous
Dogs
Book Illustrations

Description

Engraving signed: GB:fe.
Injection into the leg of a dog. Dog lies bound to a table. Three disembodied hands hold a syringe injecting a drug into a vein in the dog's leg.
Title taken from explanation of the figure on the following page.

Source

Original Image in: Elsholtz, Johann Sigismund, 1623-1688. Clysmatica nova (Coloniae Brandenburgicae : Ex officina Georgi Schultzi impensis Danielis Reichelii, 1667). Qdd 46a (Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Clysmatica nova was one of the first books to discuss blood transfusion and the intravenous injection of drugs. This greatly expanded second edition included plates that depict the transfusion of blood from animal to animal, man to man, and animal to man.

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1667

Language

lat

Type

StillImage

Identifier

Qdd_46a.pl1

Original Format

1 print : engraving

Physical Dimensions

13 x 8 cm

Citation

“Infusio simplex in brutis,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 25, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2158.