Jean-louis Petit - L'art De Guerir Les Maladies Des Os. Où L'on Traite Des Luxations & Des Fractures, Avec Les Instrumens Necessaires & Une Machine De Nouvelle Invention Pour Les Réduire...

<p>Prima rara edizione. Cfr. <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Blake </span>345; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Garrison-Morton</span> 4300: &laquo;He is particularly remembered for his work on bone diseases. He invented the screw tourniquet, gave the first account of osteomalacia, and was the first to open the mastoid process&raquo;; <em>Wellcome </em>IV, 343; manca a <em>Heirs of Hippocrates</em>, che censisce l'edizione del 1784: &laquo;Petit was the leading French surgeon of the early eighteenth century and the first director of the Acad&eacute;mie de Chirurgie in Paris. This, his major work, was first published in 1705 as <em>L'art de gu&eacute;rir les maladies des os</em> and was translated into English in 1726. It is in this work that he gave the first account of osteomalacia and of clot formation in arteries following ligation&raquo;.</p>