Baseilhac, Lithotomie, 1804

De La Taille Laterale Par Le Perinee, Et Celle De L’Hypogastre, Ou Haut Appareil, Rapportee a leurs vrais Auteurs, avec les Regles theoriques qu’ils ont fixees pour leur parfaite execution, et la Description constructive des Instrumens qu’ils ont inventes ou perfectionnes pour y proceder avec succes. Par Pascal Baseilhac, Neveu de seu Frere Come, ancien Aide-Major gagnant Maitrise de l’Hopital de la Charite, Membre du College de la ci-devant Academie Royale de Chirurugie, Chirurgien en chef dudit Hopital, et de celui de l’Hopsice du Petit-Montrouge. Avec des Gravures. |Prix 6 francs 50 cent., et 8 francs 20 cent. franc de port.| A Paris, Chez { L’Auteur, rue Saint-Honore, n.o 87, pres celle de la Convention. Gabon et Comp., rue des Ecoles de Medecine. L’an XII de la Republique, et le premier de l’Avenement de Napoleon Bonaparte a l’Empire des Francais. M. DCCC. IV.
 
Quarter red leather with marbled paper over boards. Black title label and gold bands on spine. Mild wear to edges of boards. Toning of paste downs. Small stain at top of errata page. Two portrait plates and one surgical instrument plate. Clean, bright, and tight throughout. 
 
Ffep, half title, title, 372, rfep. With 3 plates. 
 
Jean Baseilhac (1703-1781): See Heirs 866: “Baseilhac initially studied medicine and surgery with his father and uncle who was surgeon to the Hôtel Dieu in Lyons. He later became a student at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris and entered the practice of medicine. After the death of his noble patron in 1728, Baseilhac entered the Feuillants, a reformed branch of the Cistercian Order, and became known as Frère Côme. He devoted himself to practicing lithotomy among the poor and performed thousands of operations at St. Honoré Hospital in Paris as well as throughout the country. He performed many suprapubic operations and developed a sonde à dard to aid in that operation. He favored the lateral operation and devised the lithotome caché that had a retractable blade for entering the bladder in an attempt to overcome the difficulties of that operation. Frère Côme was a controversial figure and his results were viewed with suspicion by many in the medical community.” Also see Heirs 866.1: “Baseilhac (frère Côme or frère Cosme, after Saint Cosme, the patron of surgeons) was a French surgeon and lithotomist as well as a monk, attached in Paris to the Hôtel-Dieu. At his own expense, he founded a Paris hospice for the poor, where he looked after the patients himself.” See also G-M 4285.