A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.

The engraved title page to the 1656/1657 The Hague edition of J. Scultetus, Armamentarium chirurgicum, which first appeared in a posthumous edition in Ulm in 1653. This work on surgical instruments, appliances, bandages and their use went through several editions and translations in the seventeenth century. The English translation published in London in 1674 is entitled The Chyrurgeons store-house. Scultetus (1595-1645) studied in Padua and returned to Germany where he had a successful career as a surgeon. His book is illustrated by forty-three plates, of which the twenty-sixth illustrates the extension and setting of a broken thigh, similar to the operation seen in the title page in which lengths of bands are being attached to the patient to be pulled by the surgeon's assistants. The instruments hanging on the walls in the background are like those illustrated in the book