Petit traite contenant une des parties principalles de Chirurgie, laquelle les Chirurgiens hernieres exercent, ainsi quil est montre en la page suivante. Fait par Pierre Franco chirurgien de Lausane. Il faut endurer pour durer
A 1556 French surgical treatise printed in Lyon by A. Vincent, written by Pierre Franco, a surgeon of Lausanne, for barber-surgeons who performed hernia operations. The pictures are small woodcut instruments and printers' ornaments, including a pair of tongs beside a clamp drawn with fine hatching and a curling scrollwork cartouche, offering a designer clean outline tools and decorative flourishes for period-style emblems and borders.
