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Engraved title page with central lettered cartouche, allegorical figures on each side, and a lower scene of a dissection and laboratory with robed onlookers.

Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.

An engraved title page framed by ornate architectural borders, with a central cartouche reading Opera Medica and Norimbergae 1660. Flanking allegorical figures stand on either side, and a lower panel shows robed men gathered around a dissection and a laboratory with glass vessels and furnaces.

Artist
Johann Friedrich Fleischberger
Date
1660
Medium
Title pages Engravings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2350 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1660.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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Una portada grabada enmarcada por ornamentados bordes arquitectónicos, con un cartucho central que dice Opera Medica y Norimbergae 1660. A los lados aparecen figuras alegóricas de pie, y en el panel inferior hombres con túnica se reúnen alrededor de una disección y un laboratorio con vasijas de vidrio y hornos.

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