Surgical Illustration
Samuel Benavente
1699
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These pages are from a manuscript, De dificuldade de ourinar (On Difficulty in Urinating), by a Jewish physician and surgeon in Amsterdam, Samuel de Leon Benavente (1643–1722). He was known for his skill at removing kidney stones, as in the operation depicted here.
Credits
Collection Ets Haim — Livraria Montezinos, Amsterdam, EH 48 D 32.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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