Item #101346 A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affections of the Bones. Wherein His Opinions and Practice, in Such Cases, are Stated and Exemplified. Edited by Xav[ier]. Bichat. Translated . by Charles Caldwell with Notes and an Appendix Containing Several Late Improvements in Surgery. P J. Desault.
A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affections of the Bones. Wherein His Opinions and Practice, in Such Cases, are Stated and Exemplified. Edited by Xav[ier]. Bichat. Translated . by Charles Caldwell with Notes and an Appendix Containing Several Late Improvements in Surgery.
A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affections of the Bones. Wherein His Opinions and Practice, in Such Cases, are Stated and Exemplified. Edited by Xav[ier]. Bichat. Translated . by Charles Caldwell with Notes and an Appendix Containing Several Late Improvements in Surgery.
A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affections of the Bones. Wherein His Opinions and Practice, in Such Cases, are Stated and Exemplified. Edited by Xav[ier]. Bichat. Translated . by Charles Caldwell with Notes and an Appendix Containing Several Late Improvements in Surgery.
A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affections of the Bones. Wherein His Opinions and Practice, in Such Cases, are Stated and Exemplified. Edited by Xav[ier]. Bichat. Translated . by Charles Caldwell with Notes and an Appendix Containing Several Late Improvements in Surgery.

A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affections of the Bones. Wherein His Opinions and Practice, in Such Cases, are Stated and Exemplified. Edited by Xav[ier]. Bichat. Translated . by Charles Caldwell with Notes and an Appendix Containing Several Late Improvements in Surgery.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Fry & Kammerer, 1805. xiii, [1], 413 pp; 3 plates. Original full leather binding. Text is foxed and browned, as are the plates. First Edition in English of Vol. 1 of Desault's Oeuvres chirurgicales, Garrison-Morton 5580 (citing 1st French ed., 1798-1803). "Desault made many contributions to the treatment of fractures, particularly with his concepts of wound debridement. His lectures were collected and published by Bichat and appeared in English translation in the United States [offered here]" (Pelter, Fractures, A History and Iconography of Their Treatment, p. 36). "After the development of amputation, the next significant improvement in the treatment of open fractures was the development of mechanical cleansing of the wound and the release of tension. The idea was first enunciated by Pierre-Joseph Desault. It is the procedure we call debridement" (Pelter, Fractures, A History and Iconography of Their Treatment, p. 91; see also pp. 92-93). "The Desault splint for fracture of the femur was still in usein France in 1918 when we arrived" (annotation to Orr 151). Heirs of Hippocrates 1054. Orr 152. Austin 655.

This copy was owned by Dr. Currie Barnett (1771-1852) from Roxboro, North Carolina.

A nice copy of this SCARCE work. Not Ex-Lib. Item #101346

Price: $600.00

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