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JOBERT DE LAMBALLE, Antoine de.

Traite de chirurgie plastique, accompagné d'un Atlas in-folio de 18 planches gravées et coloriées.

Paris: J.B. Baillie, 1849.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #004090

Atlas: large folio (418 x 218 mm); 8 pp. of title and plate explanations, 18 engraved plates of which 17 hand-colored and 2 double page. Text volumes: 8vo (213 x 130 mm); xxiv, 453 [1]; [4], 720 pp., including half-title to each volume. Atlas: Original cloth-backed printed boards (boards soiled, spotted and scratched, light wear to spine and extremities), title, text pages and final uncolored plate slightly foxed, some finger-soiling at outer margins of few plates; text volumes: contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, spines gilt lettered and ruled in blind, red-sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers (leather over spines sunned and dried, extremities rubbed), paper little browned at outer margins, first and final pages somewhat foxed, first 3 leaves of vol. I with light brown stain at foot. Provenance: Universite Catholique, Lille (stamp and "annule" stamp to title-page of atlas). In all a very good, bright and crisp set. ----

FIRST EDITION, AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE WITH BOTH THE ATLAS AND TEXT VOLUMES PRESENT, of Jobert de Lamballe's treatise on plastic surgery. Antoine-Joseph Jobert de Lamballe (1799-1867) was a French professor of anatomy and a gynecologist. He was personal surgeon of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III and is one of the pioneers of general anesthesia in France using ether. After having studied medicine in Paris, followed - as a pupil of Richerand and Jules Cloquet - by an internship at the Hospitals of Paris in 1821, he was appointed prosector and became a surgeon at the Hospitals in 1829, a surgeon at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in 1830, then an associate professor of anatomy in 1831. Jobert is best known for his masterful use of autoplasty, the repair of diseased parts by surrounding healthy tissue, and especially for the operation he called elitroplasty correcting the vesicovaginal fistula. He gave an impetus to the therapy of affections of the uterus and its appendages. He was the first to perform sliding cystoplasty to heal vesicovaginal fistula. It describes procedures for the surgical cure of various fistulas and the restoration of the functions of urinary organs which have undergone autoplastic operations. Jobert was elected to the Academy of Medicine in 1840 and to the Academy of Sciences in 1856 (Wikisource). Not in Garrison-Morton-Norman, Wellcome library or Heirs to Hippocrates.
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