About This Item
Title
Infusio simplex in homine
Subject
Injections, Intravenous
Book Illustrations
Description
Artist unknown.
Injection into a man's arm and leg. A man seated at a table holding a tourniquet recieves an injection into a vein in his left leg by three disembodied hands. Above the scene, a outstreched arm receives an injection by three disembodied hands.
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.pl2
Original Format
1 print : engraving
Physical Dimensions
13 x 8 cm
Citation
“Infusio simplex in homine,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2159.