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- Ars moriendi
- Ars moriendi
- 0218
- Ars moriendi, or The art of dying, was intended to instruct the reader on the proper modes of behavior when facing death. The book was one result of the Church's effort to educate the laity in the fundamentals of Christianity during the late...
- The birth of mankinde, otherwise named the woman's booke. Set foorth in English by Thomas Raynalde
- Rösslin, Eucharius, d. 1526
- 0201
- English midwives and physicians were largely dependent on this book for guidance in the practice of obstetrics until the eighteenth century when Smellie and Hunter published their scientific treatises.
- De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.
- Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564
- 0281
- The Fabrica is the most famous anatomical work ever published, to this day one of the most beautiful in existence, and the milestone in all medical history which definitely showed a break from old traditions. It cannot be emphasized too often that...

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