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PARÉ, AMBROISE. 1510?-1590. Les Oeuvres. Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1579.
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PARÉ, AMBROISE. 1510?-1590.
Les Oeuvres. Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1579.
Folio (333 x 242 mm). ã6 ẽ4 a-z6 A-4K6 A-K4 L6. Numerous woodcut illustrations in text, additional suite of nearly all the illustrations on the final 45 leaves, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout. 20th century calf, covers double gilt ruled with floral device in corners, five raised bands, spine gilt in panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. First two gatherings neatly remargined at lower and bound margins, a few additional marginal repairs, a few minor spots, spine slightly sunned and rubbed.
SECOND EDITION, REVISED AUGMENTED BY THE AUTHOR. Profusely illustrated with anatomical and surgical woodcuts, as well as woodcuts of "monsters" and zoological oddities. The first edition appeared in 1575. "Paré, of humble Huguenot beginnings and poorly educated, became the sixteenth century's outstanding surgeon and the greatest military surgeon before his fellow countryman, Larrey, more than two hundred years later. He began his studies as a barber-surgeon and at age nineteen, while working as a surgical dresser and assistant in a Paris hospital, he began to acquire the fund of practical knowledge for which he became a legend in his own time. Probably his best known innovations were his discarding the use of boiling oil in gunshot wounds and the reintroduction of simple ligature instead of red hot cautery after amputation. He invented many surgical and dental instruments and was especially adept at devising ingenious artificial limbs" (Heirs of Hippocrates 271, 1582 ed). Garrison-Morton 5565 (1575 ed); USTC 34800; Wellcome 4820.
Folio (333 x 242 mm). ã6 ẽ4 a-z6 A-4K6 A-K4 L6. Numerous woodcut illustrations in text, additional suite of nearly all the illustrations on the final 45 leaves, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout. 20th century calf, covers double gilt ruled with floral device in corners, five raised bands, spine gilt in panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. First two gatherings neatly remargined at lower and bound margins, a few additional marginal repairs, a few minor spots, spine slightly sunned and rubbed.
SECOND EDITION, REVISED AUGMENTED BY THE AUTHOR. Profusely illustrated with anatomical and surgical woodcuts, as well as woodcuts of "monsters" and zoological oddities. The first edition appeared in 1575. "Paré, of humble Huguenot beginnings and poorly educated, became the sixteenth century's outstanding surgeon and the greatest military surgeon before his fellow countryman, Larrey, more than two hundred years later. He began his studies as a barber-surgeon and at age nineteen, while working as a surgical dresser and assistant in a Paris hospital, he began to acquire the fund of practical knowledge for which he became a legend in his own time. Probably his best known innovations were his discarding the use of boiling oil in gunshot wounds and the reintroduction of simple ligature instead of red hot cautery after amputation. He invented many surgical and dental instruments and was especially adept at devising ingenious artificial limbs" (Heirs of Hippocrates 271, 1582 ed). Garrison-Morton 5565 (1575 ed); USTC 34800; Wellcome 4820.