Fig. 2. Bird’s-eye View of the Temple of Aesculapius and Associated Buildings on the Island of Cos _facing page_ 54 Fig. 3. Ground Plan of the Asclepieion on the Island of Cos _facing page_ 55 Fig. 4. Ancient Statue of the God Aesculapius in the Berlin Museum _facing page_ 62 Fig. 5. Head of the Marble Statue of the God Aesculapius in the Naples Museum _facing page_ 62 Fig. 6. Bas-relief of Aesculapius, Accompanied by Women and Children, in the Presence of an Enormous Serpent _facing page_ 68 Fig. 7. Female Bust Showing Cancer of One Breast _facing page_ 68 Fig. 8. Paralysis of the Left Facial Nerve _facing page_ 70 Fig. 9. The Oldest Known Pictorial Representation of a Formal Dissection of the Human Body _facing page_ 280 Fig. 10. The Manner of Giving Public Instruction in Medicine during the Middle Ages 281 Fig. 11. Henri de Mondeville _facing page_ 288 Fig. 12. One of the Wards in the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris _facing page_ 304 Fig. 13. The Physician, the Surgeon and the Pharmacist _facing page_ 306 Fig. 14. Andreas Vesalius _facing page_ 344 Fig. 15. William Harvey _facing page_ 380 Fig. 16. “The Lovesick Maiden” _facing page_ 412 Fig. 17. Thomas Sydenham _facing page_ 418 Fig. 18. Consultation by Three Physicians upon a Case of Wound in the Chest 457 Fig. 19. Barber Surgeon (_Wundarzt_) Extracting an Arrow from a Wounded Soldier’s Chest while the Battle is Still in Progress 461 Fig. 20. Amputation of the Leg 463 Fig. 21. The Manner in Which the So-called Tagliacotian Operation for Repairing a Defective Nose Should be Carried Out 480 Fig. 22. Pierre Franco’s Forceps for Crushing Calculi in the Urinary Bladder 497 Figs. 23–24. Forceps Devised in 1552 by Ambroise Paré for Drawing Out the Cut Ends of Arteries after the Amputation of a Limb, and Holding Them while the Ligature is Being Applied 512 Fig. 25. Ambroise Paré the Famous French Surgeon of the Sixteenth Century _facing page_ 514