LE DRAN, Traité des opérations de chirurgie, 1742

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1742.

8vo (194x123 mm), (8)-570-(2) pages and 1 plate.  binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Binding rubbed. Loss of leather on second cover. Foxings.Tear on plate. 

references: Heirs of Hippocrates [809 :"The work is broad in scope and reflects his wide range of clinical experience in the hospitals of Paris. Although he devoted a significant portion of the book to bladder stones, his specialty, he also covers urology, amputation, plastic surgery, surgery of the head, various orthopedic procedures, gangrene, sutures, and inflammation. The single plate shows a bladder stone and two instruments used in lithotomy."].

Price : 250 €