QUARANTE ANNEES DE PRATIQUE CHIRURGICALE.
[Two volumes, text in French]. Volume I: Chirurgie reparatrice. Pp. [iv]+xviii+476; Volume II: Maladies des Arteres. Pp. [iv]+xxxii+476; qr. green leather, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled papered boards, lightly worn, a few small surface grazes to leather, signs of removal of shelf labels from spines; marbled endpapers, early (undeciphered) inked signature on half-title page Volume I, library stamp blacked out on title and first text pages both volumes, plus one (Bibliotheque Centre Chirurgical du Prof. Leon Berard) not obscured on p. 147 each volume, some pencilling in French to margins and outer leaves, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Libraire de Victor Masson, Paris, 1854-1855. First edition. *Posthumously published. Volume II includes a brief account of Roux's life and work by Rene Marjolin. Philibert-Joseph Roux (1780-1854) succeeded Guillaume Dupuytren as chief surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu, Paris. A pioneer plastic surgeon, he performed one of the earliest staphylorrhaphies [surgical repair of a cleft palate] in 1819. The Centre Leon Berard in Lyon was named after the oncologist who was director of the centre from 1923 to 1940. Item #148577
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