Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.

Instruments for extracting bladder-stone: forceps, syringe, catheter and scalpel. For descriptions of the instruments, see H. Fabricius ab Aquapendente, De chirurgicis operationibus, in his Opera chirurgica, Padua: F. Bolzetta, 1641, at the pages indicated on the engraving. Angelo Carlesco, named in the work as inventor, was the designer of the instruments: see Wellcome Library catalogue, record number 586840i