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Dupuytren, Lecons Orales de Clinique Chirurgicale, 1832, first edition

Dupuytren, Lecons Orales de Clinique Chirurgicale, 1832, first edition

Lecons Orales de Clinque Chirurgicale. Faites A L’Hotel-Dieu de Paris, Par M. Le Baron Dupuytren, Chrurgien en Chef. Paris, 1832 .

 

Four octavo volumes uniformly bound in quarter red leather bindings with marbled paper over boards. Gold text and design on spines. Marbled end papers. Fly leaves slightly browned. Text blocks clean, bright, and tight with minimal foxing. Margins ample. Ribbon page margins intact. Advertisements on the versos of half titles. 

 

Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835). He was "the most oustanding general surgeon in France in the early nineteenth century...whose work on surgical treatment of aneurysm was outstanding...and also wrote an exhaustive work on war wounds." (Singer, 184/5).

 

"Dupuytren played a part in the development of orthopaedics, though his interests were much wider. A certain type of fracture of the fibula and a contracture of the fascia of the palm of the hand still bear his name. He was the first to treat wry-neck by division of the sternomastoid muscle" (Singer p 658).

 

"Dupuytren was born in poverty and died a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was a “shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivaled aplomb, a wonderful clinical teacher, and a good experimental physiologist and pathologist” (Garrison); his greatest contributions were in the field of surgical pathology. Vol. 1, p. 424 contains Dupuytren's classification of burns. English translation by A. S. Doane, Boston, 1833." (G-M 2247/5590)

 

Complete first edition of an important surgical work by a physician whose name is immortalized in the condition Dupuytren’s contracture (described in this work in volume 1). 

$1,400.00Price

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