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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Instrumentarium chirurgicum Viennense oder, Wiennerische chirurgische Instrumenten-Sammlung.

Vienna: Matthias Andreas Schmidt, 1781.

Brambilla was a personal physician to Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II and the first director of the Vienna hospital and the Josefinum school for military surgeons (now a medical museum). Brambilla provided a history of surgical instruments from antiquity to his own time. His work includes 67 plates illustrating over 600 surgical and dental instruments in their original size. Brambilla commissioned three sets of instruments corresponding to the plates in his book. These instrument sets are preserved at the Museo Gaileo, at Vienna, and at the University of Pavia museum. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#10715
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/12909
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLinstrumentarium-chirurgicorum-militare-austriacum

Geographic Context

Publication place: Vienna

Mentioned in annotation: Pavia