Mellificium chirurgiae; or, the marrow of chirurgery. With the anatomy of human bodies according to the most modern anatomists, illustrated with many anatomical observations. Institutions of physick, with Hippocrates's aphorisms largely commented upon, The marrow of physick, shewing the causes, signs, and cures of most diseases incident to human bodies ...
Mellificium chirurgiae is a 1700 London medical compendium by surgeon James Cooke (1614-1694), printed by J. Phillips for surgeons and physicians and drawn from the Wellcome Library. Its single plate shows a full-length human skeleton seen from the front, standing with arms slightly away from the body, drawn in fine pen and ink with hatched shading on bones, pelvis and limbs, a clear model for anatomical diagrams and skeleton studies.
