GUILLEMEAU, Jacques.

by Jacques Guillemeau

£3,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

The third and most complete of the collected editions of Jacques Guillemeau's medical works issued during his lifetime, bringing together in one volume all of his previously published works. . .Jacques Guillemeau (1550 1612) was born in Orl éans into a family of surgeons and studied surgery under Riolan, Courtin, and Ambroise Par é. Guillemeau was not only a student but also a friend of Par é, as his affectionate dedication in his .Trait é des maladies de l oeil. (1585) demonstrates: je desirerois faire cognoistre ‚àö‚Ć un chacun, combien ie vous estois redevable, pour avoir est é l espace de huict ans endoctrin é en vostre maison . Par é also took him as an assistant on several military campaigns, and he spent four years with the Spanish army in Flanders. Returning to Paris in 1581 to work as a doctor, Guillemeau became noted as a surgeon and served as surgeon-in-ordinary to three French kings (Charles IX, Henry III and Henri IV). . .After a prefatory section on the history, development, and excellence of anatomical science, .Les Oeuvres .begins by re-offering Guillemeau's .Tables anatomiques. (1586). The first part of this work consists of a methodical division of all the parts of the human body into the bones, the stomach, the circulatory system, the thorax, the head, the nervous system and the musculatory system. These large-scale divisions are refined into subsections and illustrated by numerous anatomical tables, each facing a leaf of explanatory text keyed to the tabl

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