VELPEAU, Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie.

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Nouveaux elements de medecine operatoire First edition of this treatise that "in its time was the most comprehensive work on operative surgery in France" (Garrison-Morton, p. 653). Velpeau's tract details surgical techniques, from the most basic to his own innovations in ophthalmology. The chapters on lacrimal surgery, as well as plates VII to IX, are an unusually detailed record of the developments he introduced to eye surgery.Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau (1795-1867) began studying surgery at the age of 20. In 1834 he was appointed to chair of clinical surgery at the Hospital la Charité in Paris, and held the position until his death, by which time he had published over 340 works on surgery, ophthalmology, and obstetrics. Published while Velpeau was a surgeon at the Pitié-Sâlpetrière Hospital in Paris, Nouveaux elements owed its success partly to its focus on the positive value of surgery. This was in sharp contrast with earlier manuals, which emphasized the dangers of such procedures.

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