1743 - 1774, Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Chirurgie, LA18.
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- Illustrations : 3 engraved frontispieces (repeated), 5 copper-engraved title vignettes, initials, 89 (29 folded) engraved plates.
- Volumes: 5 volumes.
- Binding : contemporary marbled calf binding, spine with gilt floral decoration, gilt fillets, red edges, marbled endpapers.
- Condition : good condition, slightly rubbes, corners slightly bumped, the headpieces of volume 1 with small tear, generally clean, a few faint stains, a few pages and plates slightly browned, a few small marginal tears, one plate with small folds in the margins and slightly stained with ink, T IV the last 3 pages very slightly dampstained in one centimeter in the upper margin. Overall a fine edition.
- Format : In-4.
- Pages : T 1: XLIV, 778 pp., 1 f. (King's Privilege), frontispiece and 20 pl. - T II: 2 ff, XCVIII pp., 3 ff, 613 pp., frontispiece and 22 pl. - T III: 2 ff, 139, (1) pp., 2 ff, 680 pp., 1 f. (King's Privilege), frontispiece and 19 pl. - T IV: 2 ff., 123, (1) pp., 699 pp., 9 pl. - T V: 2 ff., XVI, 928 pp., 19 pl.
complete except for the frontispieces of volumes 4 and 5. - Publisher : T I: La Haye, Pierre Gosse, T II Paris, Delaguette, T III Paris, La Veuve Delaguette, T IV: Paris, Le Prieur, T 5: Paris, Didot.
- Date : 1743-1774.
Original and complete edition of the memoirs published by the Royal Academy of Surgery in the 18th century.
The Royal Academy of Surgery is an ancient French institution founded in Paris, where, under the Ancien Régime, surgeons were trained. Founded in 1731 to replace the brotherhood of Saint-Côme and Saint-Damien, it was suppressed in 1793.
It was the site of many operative advances: treatment of cataract by extraction of the lens, incision of the kidney in infected lithiasis; evacuation of extra-dural haematoma, incision of the brain abscess by Jean-Louis Petit; tracheotomy in diphtheria.
The Royal Academy of Surgery, free from any link with the Faculty of Medicine and its dogmas, allowed 18th century surgery to take major conceptual steps. It was to establish the beginnings of the anatomical-clinical method and of medical thinking based on experimentation. The surgeons of the Academy noted their successes and failures, dissected deceased patients, observed organ lesions, related them to the observed symptoms, reported them to the Assembly, debated and voted on the operative indications of such or such technique. The teaching encourages the students to count the observed clinical symptoms and signs in order to make a diagnosis according to their number. Diagnosis is no longer rhetoric but is trying to become evidence.
Among the authors: François La Peyronie (La maladie de La Peyonie), François Quesnay, Jacques Daviel, French surgeon and ophthalmologist, Antoine Louis, Jean-Louis Petit...
| Condition | Used - Good |
|---|---|
| Language | France |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1743 |
| Year | 1743 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Collectif |
| Editor | Blanchard Librairie des sciensces et des arts |
| First edition | Yes |
| Signed edition | No |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Full leather |
| Size | 26 x 21 cm |
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