PARÉ, Ambroise [with] DUFOUR, Gerald [with] SABATIER, Jean-Pierre

£29,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

Very rare and important first edition of Ambroise Par é s greatest work, illustrated with a woodcut portrait of Par é at the age of 55 and 41 woodcuts depicting surgical operations and instruments. The Cinq livres contains all new material. It had been called by several serious writers Par é s chef d oeuvre. In it appears the first description of the fracture of the head and of the femur. Secondly, it is the first appearance of the whole teaching of bandages, fractures, and dislocations which has come down to us from the ancients, broadened by Par é s own experience. It is undoubtedly one of his most important works (Doe 19). This eminently practical work is very rare, even more so in good condition, as copies were undoubtedly much used in the field as a practical guides. Par é s original books, all very rare today, were handy volumes, small enough for the field surgeon s knapsack Hagelin. During the 1537 siege of Turin, a young French barber-surgeon abandoned the conventional wisdom about the treatment of bullet wounds, giving rise to a revolution in surgical techniques and pedagogy. Ambroise Par é .. set the stage for the modern melding of scientific medicine and the invasive procedures that define surgery at the turn of the 21st century. The dogmatic quality of Galenism meant that physicians until the Renaissance and in many ways until the 19th century did not practice a medicine based on practical observation, experience, and empirical analysis. The treatments proscribed

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