1775 Treatise on Diseases of Bones ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL DEVICES antique 2 VOLS

Traité des maladies des os, dans lequel on a representé les appareils & les machines qui conviennent à leur guérison.

( Treatise on Diseases of the Bones, in which are depicted the apparatus and machines suitable for their cure)

2 vols.

by Jean-Louis Petit (1674–1750)

Paris, Cavellier ; 1775.


Illustrated

2 lvs, 320 pages; 2 lvs, 430 pp., 1 leaf


- Garrison/Morton 4300 (issue 1705). Waller 7324 (issue 1741). -

"Petit was the leading French surgeon of the early eighteenth century and the first director of the Académie de Chirurgie in Paris. It is in this work that he gave the first account of osteomalacia and of clot formation in arteries following ligation" (Heirs of Hippocrates 776, ed. 1784).


- Partly water- and foxing-stained, 1 folding plate with a repaired tear. Signs of use. -


Original leather bindings. Spine with raised bands, richly gilt. Marbled endpapers.

Some occasional stains, one of the spines cracked, some wear


Text in French

 Size 4 by 6 3/4"
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