LE VIE D'AMBROISE PARE:
(Chirugien de Roy, ecrivan). [Text in French]. Preface by Dr. Victor Pauchet. Pp. xii+160, frontispiece portrait of Pare; roy. 8vo; printed beige paper wrappers, edges a trifle creased and rubbed, small shelf label at foot of backstrip, the edges and backstrip slightly browned; uncut and largely unopened; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Librairie le Francois, Paris, 1930. First edition. *Ambroise Pare (1510-1590) was one of the most notable surgeons of the European Renaissance and has been described as the father of modern surgery . 'He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery, for his revival of podalic version, his re-introduction of the ligature and his invention of many new surgical instruments' [Garrison & Morton]. Item #150441
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