Esser, Biological Flaps, circa 1928
Biological- Or Artery Flaps Of The Face, With 420 Plates and a List of the Author’s Publications by J. F. S Esser. Published by: The Editor of the Institut Esser de Chirurgie structive >>. Monaco.
Dedication page reads: This edition is dedicated to the Committee of Honour of the Institut Esser de Chirurgie Structive. This edition will be sold for the profit of the Institut. J. F. S. Esser
No Date. Circa 1928 (tentative, per Wellcome Collection).
New full brown leather over boards, with gold text on front board and spine. Some tonal variety to the leather, apparently intrinsic to the hide. New end papers. Dedication page printed in black. Advert leaf at rear printed in color. A few foci of brown staining along fore-edge margins, not affecting text or plates. Otherwise, clean, bright, and tight throughout.
New ffep, dedication, title, 3-176, (2), advert leaf, new rfep. 51 plates and figures (alphanumerically coded and totaling approximately 420 illustrations), as follows:
3 diagrammatic single page plates, 1 folding diagrammatic plate, 29 photographic single page plates, 16 folding photographic plates, 1 in-text diagrammatic figure, 1 in-text photographic figure.
Pages 168 – 175 are the list of Esser’s publications (92 entries from 1916 – 1933). Page 176 is Contents for this work.
Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser (1878 – 1946) was, according to the lengthy accolades on the title page, the first to specialize in Structive or Plastic Surgery of the whole body. He was a physician of Leiden University, Belgian M.D. of Ghent University, nominated German M.D. of Berlin university, first Consulting-Surgeon for plastic surgery of the ministries of war of Austria-Hungary and Germany, Surgeon-in-Chief of the Great Austrian War Hospital of Brunn, and numerous other appointments in plastic surgery.
Furthermore, according to the Wellcome Collection: “Anything from the pen of J. F. S. Esser must be most carefully studied by any reconstructive surgeon. When his epithelial inlay was first published in English in March 1917, few of the surgeons who read it were alive to the immense possibilities that lay behind the thought. Similarly, to a modified extent, a certain type of antagonism was felt toward his rotation flap. The truth about these two procedures as practiced by English-speaking races is that the ideas of bot are eminently sound and when suitably modified of great practical value.”
The preface (in French and English) is written by Jean Louis Faure (1863-1944) was an eminent French plastic surgeon. And to paraphrase that preface, “Esser is [the] man!”
13 1/8 x 10 ½ x 1 5/8 inches
