The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the RenaissanceThe Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Johannes de Ketham

Johannes de Ketham

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Johannes de Ketham (fl. 1455–1470) Fasciculus medicinae Venice: Cesare Arrivabene, 1522 The Le Roy Crummer Collection

Title Page

This book consists of a miscellaneous selection of short medical treatises from the thirteenth century onward, written by several authors and illustrated by full-page illustrations. The illustrations represent old medical practices and anatomical illustrations that became standard in early printed books: the uroscopy diagram, the phlebotomy man, the “Zodiac Man,” the seated woman displaying her internal organs, the wound man, and the dissection lecture. The author of this compilation was probably Johannes Kellner von Kircheim, a physician and professor of medicine in Vienna.