DIONIS, Cours d'Opérations de Chirurgie, 1740
DIONIS, Pierre.
Cours d'Opérations de Chirurgie.
Paris, D'Houry, 1740.
8vo (194x124 mm), frontispiece, portrait, xxxii-923-(1) pages and 16 plates. binding : Contemporary full sheep, spine with six compartments. Headcap worn, corners bumped. Minor waterstains.
Pierre Dionis (1643-1718) gave anatomy lessons at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris from 1672, he introduced the discoveries of William Harvey on the circulation of the blood. In 1712, he became doctor and first surgeon of the Dauphin, of the House of France and of several princes of the blood.
Many plates of surgical instruments and many engravings in the text.
references: Garrison-Morton [5575 (ed. 1707) : "Dionis taught operative surgery at the Jardin-du-Roi, Paris, a famous training ground for surgeons."], Heirs [650 (ed. 1707 : "this work ...became extremely popular and was widely used as a textbook. It was published in many editions and was translated into several foreign languages. The text reveals that Dionis was a surgeon with compassion for his patients and that he relied heavily on a thorough knowledge of anatomy. The volume contains many illustrations that depict the surgical instruments and other paraphernalia required for a wide variety of surgical procedures."].
Price : 300 €
