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Treatment for a depressed skull fracture

Descriptive Title: Treatment for a depressed skull fracture.

Technique: engraving/etching

Dimensions: 20 x 12 cm.

Digital ID: RBAI010-0021

Scope and Content: Treatment of patient with depressed skull fracture to the parietal bone. Surgical instrument used to drill into the bone and lift the fractured section.

General: Male head, in vivo.

Subject: Skull

Subject: Skull Fractures

Subject: Surgical Instruments

This plate is taken from the book:

Title: Succenturiatus anatomicus

Author: Paaw, Pieter, 1564-1617

Published: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Apud Iodocum á Colster, 1616

Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm

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Uploaded on February 3, 2014
Taken on February 3, 2014