PETIT. Traité des maladies chirurgicales.
Copy with the rare supplement
PETIT, Jean-Louis. Traité des maladies chirurgicales et des opérations qui leur conviennent.
Paris, Méquignon, 1788.
800 €
Three volumes, 8vo (19.6x12.1 cm):
-V1: Frontispiece, (8)-civ-407 pages and 31 folding plates
- V2 : viii-560 pages and 12 folding plates
- V3 : viii-343 pages and 47 folding plates followed by the "supplément" written by M. Lesné : 120 pages.
illustration: One frontispiece (portrait of petit) and 90 folding plates (in irregular order, as originally bound but all present) of surgical instruments.
binding: Contemporary full mottled sheep.
Binding rubbed, with lacks on covers of volume one and three. Caps worn, corners bumped.
Edition, with the rare supplement and the portrait, often missing.
Crisp copy of this important work of Petit.
"Petit was the leading french surgeon of the early eighteenth century and the first director of the Académie de chirurgie in Paris. He was the inventor of the screw tourniquet and developed many new and successful surgical procedures. He made significant improvements in the techniques for performing amputations and herniorrhaphy. Petit was one of the earliest to describe osteomalacia and was a pioneer in cholecystotomy. In volume I of the present work is his account of the first successful operation for mastoiditis (p. 153, 160) and in volume II is his description of Petit's hernia and Petit's triangle in the region of ilium (pp. 256/258). Among the many plates are a fine portrait of Petit and a depiction of his screw tourniquet"- Heirs of Hippocrates.
With the 90 fresh plates, comprising a veritable atlas of instruments of the period.
references: Garrison-Morton [3357 & 3577], Heirs of Hippocrates [777].
