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 October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2158.