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GERSDORFF, Hans von (1455 – 1529)

1455 – 1529

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1517 CE

#5560

Feldtbuch der wundartzney.

Gersdorff performed nearly 200 amputations. He opposed Paré’s abandonment of boiling oil for the cauterization of wounds. The book contains some instructive pictures of early surgical procedures and inclu…