by pieter paaw
Treatment of patient with depressed skull fracture to the parietal bone. Surgical instrument used to drill into the bone and lift the fractured section.
Christoph Krieger - woodcut - 1590
From De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due … (Of Ancient and Modern Dress of Diverse Parts of the World in Two Books …) by Cesare Vecellio.
(Source: missbirdsong)