17th/18th Century Surgery reference books

[PoD]

I am finding a few good books on surgery of the period so I'll post them in this thread as a reference to the people involved in reenacting it.

Heres the first. A French book of the surgeons tools and techniques from 1675 called L'Arcenal de Chirurgie (the surgeons arsenal):

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

If you are squeamish you may want to stop reading it before you get to the surgery pages. Made me whince and cross my legs a few times. Scary stuff

This one has some good pictures of bandages and dressing a leg amputation. Traite des operations de chirurgie 1721:

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

This one has reference pictures to the different types of emplasters and tools. Cours d'operations de chirurgie demontrées au Jardin royal 1708:

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

Heres a 2 volume set from 1727 showing details of surgical tools. Nouveau traité des instrumens de chirurgie les plus utiles:

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

[Mission]

I am finding a few good books on surgery of the period so I'll post them in this thread as a reference to the people involved in reenacting it.

Heres the first. A French book of the surgeons tools and techniques from 1675 called L'Arcenal de Chirurgie (the surgeons arsenal):

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

If you are squeamish you may want to stop reading it before you get to the surgery pages. Made me whince and cross my legs a few times. Scary stuff

This one has some good pictures of bandages and dressing a leg amputation. Traite des operations de chirurgie 1721:

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

This one has reference pictures to the different types of emplasters and tools. Cours d'operations de chirurgie demontrées au Jardin royal 1708:

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

Heres a 2 volume set from 1727 showing details of surgical tools. Nouveau traité des instrumens de chirurgie les plus utiles:

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

Gee. I wish I could read them. No parlez-vous Français. (And entering them into Babelfish is a royal pain in the neck. Not to mention they appear to contain just as many misspellings and Latin terms as their English counterparts.) Ooh! Pretty pictures.

[PoD]

Gee. I wish I could read them. No parlez-vous Français. (And entering them into Babelfish is a royal pain in the neck. Not to mention they appear to contain just as many misspellings and Latin terms as their English counterparts.) Ooh! Pretty pictures.

Yep i am just looking at the pictures as cant speak French either. Makes the proceedures and tools look worse though as you mind runs away imagining what they were used for.

[Mission]

PoD sent me a link to this book and it is a hoot! Based on my skim-read of about 20 pages, it is not at all a surgical manual despite its title. It is a gossip column! If you want to get an interesting take on the mid-late part of the period we re-enact, check it out:

The High-German doctor

It sort of looks like a collection of newspaper columns or pamphlets to me.