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Classic work of surgery published in Latin in 1620 under the title Opera chirurgica (Frankfort 1620) which went through more than 20 editions, translated into many languages.
Several in-text figures engraved on wood. Title to the sphere.
Girolamo Fabrizi d'Acquapendente (1537-1619) was above all, in the chair of anatomy of Padua, a master whose personal discoveries favored those of some of his students, in particular William Harvey (1578-1657). We owe him the description of the valves located inside the veins (De venarum ostiolis, 1603). He advocated the ligation of the arteries to stop the haemorrhages, and the tracheotomy in certain forms of diphtheria; he became interested in surgery of the urethra and was the first to compare the development of the human embryo to that of animals.
Among his main works are also: De brutorum loquelâ (Padua 1603); De formato foetu (Venice 1600); De locutione (Venice 1627); Tractatus anatomicus triplex (Frankfort 1614). Surgical Opera. (Frankfurt 1620)
AUTHOR:Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
TITLE: Surgical Works By Hierosme Fabrice D'Aquapendente, Famous Physician, Surgeon, & Anatomical Professor at the famous University of Padua: Divided Into Two Parts: The first of which contains the Surgical Pentateuch: The Other, All the Manual Operations, which are practice on the human body. Last ed., carefully rev., & enriched with various figs. invented by the author
Publisher: Lyon: Huguetan 1674
in -8 of 16.5 x 11 cm of [8] ff, 936 pages, [11]ff
Binding: 19th century binding (ca 1850) in half sheepskin smooth back decorated with a romantic decoration with gilded irons.
Condition: fine copy, decorative binding. First bit with split start (max 4 cm). Inside in good condition, margins cut a little short on the binding (no waiting for the text). Ex-libris crossed out on the title. Light foxing. Slight traces of wetting in the foot margin of pp 439-669
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