File is a photograph of an engraving. Legend on recto states: "Early in the sixteenth century a Holland physician, Laurentius Phryesen (Phries, Friesen), residing in the German city of Colmar and later at Metz, wrote a popular book on medicine, Spiegel de Artzny, which was published at Strassburg in 1518. The work contains two anatomical illustrations, cut in wood, dated 1517, and supposedly made after the drawings of Waechtlin, a pupil of the Elder Holbein."
File is a reproduction of two panels from the Ghent Alterpiece by Jean van Eyck in Brussels. Inscription below: Jean van Eyck, Adam and Eve. Violets du Retable de l'Agneau. Musee de Bruxelles. Accompanying note states :Adam and Eve, by John van Eyck. From Les Premiers Maitres des Flandres. By Fierens-Gevaert, Bruxelles, 1905.
File is 12 engravings taken from 1829 book titled "West Port Murders, or An Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associate".
File is a reproduction of an engraving. Inscription: Engraved by J. Caldwell. GALENT CONVERSIO. Accompanying note: THE CONVERSION OF GALEN. This undated copperplate, engraved by J. Caldwell, is found in Vol. IV., third edition, of an anonymous work entitled, Medical Extracts, or the Nature of Health, London, 1798. It is credited to Dr. Robert John Thornton.
File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a medallion with the profile image of Frederick II of Germany. Inscription: Frederick II from a Medallion in the Church della Porto Santo in Andria. Accompanying note: Frederick II., (1194-1250), Emperor of Germany, King of the Two Sicilies, the last one of the Christian Kings of Jerusalem, the Author of a Treatise which contains a Complete Account of the Anatomy of the Falcon.
File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a bust of Claudius Galen. Inscription: P.P. Rubens Del: Ex Marmore Antiquo. J. Faber sen[io]r Fecit. GALEN A most excellent Physitian, born at Pirgamos in Asia. He was a great improver or the Hypocratick System of Physick, and the beginner of that Method of Practice [unknown abbreviation] has been used from his time till lately, & from him called Galenick. He is said to have been author of 200 volumes y were burnt in y temple of peace. And is numberd by Garden among y12 most subtil wits of the World. He was of a [illegible] & crazy constitution yet by temperance preserved his life to a great age. He died about the middle ... [illegible due to damage]. Accompanying note: CLAUDIUS GALEN (131-201 A.D.) Galen was the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates. His original investigations concerned chiefly Anatomy. In the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Vol. IV., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881, can be found a series of articles about Galen, written by Dr. George Jackson Fisher.
File is a reproduction of an engraving. Accompanying note states: Andreas Stog's Engracving of Pieter Paaw's Theatre of Anatomy -- the first of its kind -- which was built in Leyden, 1589 -- the first one erected in the Low Countries.