Italian listing translates into English as approximately Picturesque medicine or medical-surgical museum: Accompanied by a hundred tables of general anatomy, descriptive, surgical and pathological, internal and external pathology, operative medicine, obstetrics, medicines and therapies.

One volume is visual catalogue of engraved illustrations often coloured with watercolour, organised in numbered Tavola (tables); platemark 30.5 x 20.4 cm. Minimal written text. 196 pages including covers. Composition of a page typically combines image of human pathology or particular body part with surgical interventions alongside more-than-human sources of healing intervention.

Other volumes are extensive pages of well organised text with cross reference to visual tavola (tables). These are listed in two ways: Tavola Anelitica Delle Materie (Analytic table of materials) and Tavola Alfabetica Delle Materie (an alphabetical listing). Repeated text headings are anatomy, therapy, pathology and storia naturale medica (medicines of the natural world/natural history).

Full digitised edition available thanks to Wellcome Library.