Two vignettes illustrating surgical feats and instruments.

Unknown artist

Lettering: Christmas day 66: Richard Gray once servant to ye Earle of Bedford. ... A letter is inscribed on the print in ink and reads: "Dr Sir this is an impression from the back of an old painting on copper & appears to have been part of a large sheet designed to blazon forth the truly marvellous feats of some emperic of the 17th century whom from the locality of the cases I presume to have been the celebrated Doctor Case a Dorsetshire man this impression is taken from the plate cold the work is used twice prints very well & if ... your fathers opinion being taken it should be thought ... to have it for the magazine to work in either whole or in parts with a letter from use it will be at your service the price is a guinea & a half. Yours sincerely J Fisher. If you will advise me what evening next week you may be found at Thavies Inn about 7 ... I propose have the pleasure of waiting ..." Lettering continues: "shott himselfe through ye body with an iron rammer it went in at the stern on the left side and came four handfull out between the fifth and sixth ribs three inches from his back bone on the right side cured by me in six weeks and is now living neare Wooburn Abby 78. In the yeare 72 I cut from the breast of a widdow White aged 71 a cancer the mouth of it was 21 inches wide it was soe large that in twenty years shee had not lifted her hand to her mouth I perfected the cure in six weeks shee is now living and well in 78 at Serne Abby neare Dorchester. In the yeare 78 Ann Clarke aged 53 of Bere had halfe her lip part of her nose and part of her cheeke eaten away with a cancerous humour and a farmers daughter neare Dorchester in a worse condition for shee had lost the sight of one of her eyes both cured without deformity."