The aim of Brunschwig’s handbook is practical: to instruct those who want to learn the art of surgery. The manual consists of seven treatises. The first treatise explains the role of the surgeon, describing which wounds are curable and which ones are deadly. In the second and third treatises, the different kinds of wounds and their causes are described from head to heel (a capite ad calcem). Types of blows are discussed in the fourth treatise, and the fifth and sixth are devoted to fractures. The work ends with a collection of recipes that could be useful for surgeons. Our copy is particularly interesting because it contains manuscript medical recipes that have been added over many decades by generation of owners.
Hieronymus Brunschwig
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Chirurgia, das ist, Handwürckung der Wundartzney M. Jeronymi Braunschweig Augsburg: Alexander Weyssenhorn, 1534 Gift of George Edward Wantz