“Physica Curiosa is a large compendium of pictures and stories regarding monsters, physical abnormalities, and bizarre animals. Rather than a work of original scholarship, Schott's book, like many others of its kind, attempts to gather together...
1st edition. Collection of images engraved by Daniel Chodowiecki and others, taken from Essai sur la physiognomonie by Johann Caspar Lavater [1781]-1803
2nd ed. With this work, first published in English in 1698, Cowper provided one of the better-known stories of theft in medical history. Of the 114 plates in this collection, only nine were original with Cowper. All of the others were the work of...
3rd ed. This was the first complete text on gymnastics and stresses the importance that all forms of exercise have in maintaining good health. Relying heavily on ancient practices, this work is an excellent compendium of the physical therapy of...
A comprehensive study of prognostics, Alpini placed special emphasis on the patient's mental well-being and its relationship to health and included the usual physical and diagnostic signs.
A German rare medicinal guide published by Franz Eugen Köhler in 1887 in three volumes. It was written by Hermann Köhler, edited by Gustav Pabst, and contains some 300 full page chromolithography plates by the illustrators Walther Müller, C.F....