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A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand].

Jean Riolan the Younger, Nicholas Culpeper, Rand, William · 1657 · London : P. Cole, 1657. · 12 pictures

An English-language anatomy and surgery manual by Jean Riolan the Younger, translated by Nicholas Culpeper and William Rand and printed by Peter Cole in London in 1657 for practising physicians, surgeons and apprentices. Plates stack several dissected figures per page: seated flayed torsos with opened chests, rib cages, hearts and lungs, brain and viscera sections, thin-lined and usable as cut-out silhouettes.

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