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SCOUTETTEN, Henri.

La méthode Ovalaire, ou nouvelle methode pour amputer dans les articulations [...] avec onze planches lithographiées en partie d'après les dessins de Moreau.

Paris: Chez M.lle Delaunay, 1827.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Very Good. Item #003145

Folio (296 x 221 mm). [6], 49 [1] pp., including half-title and 11 numbered lithographic tables, all but one folding, engraved by Dupuis and Tavernier, each table accompanied by an explanation sheet. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with black morocco label lettered in gilt and some gilt decoration, marbled edges (spine ends chipped and split at joints, boards and extremities rubbed, lower corners bumped). The text generally crisp and clean, some dog-earing, tables somewhat browned and foxed (plates 2 and 3 stronger), plate no. 9 with long clean tear without loss. Provenance: Prof. Ettore Bracchini (collection stamp to title page). A very good, wide-margined copy. ----

Heirs of Hippocrates 1608.7; Wellcome V, p.74. FIRST EDITION, "uncommon, of this description of this new method of amputation at the joints, by the noted military surgeon Raoul-Henri-Joseph Scoutetten, illustrated with eleven superb lithographic plates, of which all but one are folding. After a brief introduction in which Scoutetten sketches the development of the technique, the work describes the operatory procedure, and the various parts of the body to which the procedure is applicable. The detailed plates are by Dupuis and Tavernier after Moreau. Scoutetten was born in Lille, and was active as a surgeon during military campaigns in the Crimean and elsewhere, before becoming director of the military hospital at Metz. This work is exceptionally rare. OCLC records just two copies, at the National Library of Medicine and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin." - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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