Surgery
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Georg, BARTISCH (1535-1606) Opthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst. [Dresden] 1583.
This historic work, published in German, raised ophthalmology beyond the primitive practices of the time. Called the "father of modern ophthalmology", Bartisch discusses cataract surgery, eye excision and the use of spectacles. This work is particularly noted for its woodcut illustrations showing techniques of Renaissance eye surgery.
Our copy is bound in stamped pigskin. The several flap illustrations are intact.
Leopold AUENBRUGGER (1722-1809) Inventum Novum ex Percussione Thoracis Humani ut Signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi. Vindobonae [Vienna] J.T. Trattner, 1761.
This seminal work on immediate percussion as a diagnostic tool remained little known until J.N.Corvisart, physician to Napoleon, published a French translation in 1808. Our library owns two copies of the first edition, first issue, one, a tall copy once owned by the H. K. Cushing family and the other from the library of the medical historian, Henry Handerson. In addition to the original work and Corvisart's translation, our collections hold the first (largely ignored) French translation of Rosiere de la Chassagne (1770) and the publication of Maximilian Stoll (1786) of Vienna whose favorable comments on Auenbrugger's research caught the attention of Corvisart.
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