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BARONIO, Giuseppe (1759-1811). Degli innesti animali. Milan: Stamperia e Fonderia del Genio, 1804.
8o (234 x 150 mm). Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by F. Bordiga, 2 engraved plates, one folding. (Title, frontispiece and last page with clean cut to lower margin repaired with tape, minor foxing, mostly marginal.) Contemporary blue pastepaper boards, spine gilt lettered (some rubbing, light chipping to spine and edges).
FIRST EDITION. Baronio was among the first to experiment successfully with skin grafts on sheep. These were among the first closely controlled medical experiments using animals, and constituted "the first purely scientific research in the history of plastic surgery" (Garrison-Morton). Along with John Hunter's transplant investigations in the 1770s, Baronio's work formed the background for Dieffenbach's early investigations into transplantation and regeneration. Garrison-Morton 5736; Waller 686; Wellcome II, p.103.
8o (234 x 150 mm). Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by F. Bordiga, 2 engraved plates, one folding. (Title, frontispiece and last page with clean cut to lower margin repaired with tape, minor foxing, mostly marginal.) Contemporary blue pastepaper boards, spine gilt lettered (some rubbing, light chipping to spine and edges).
FIRST EDITION. Baronio was among the first to experiment successfully with skin grafts on sheep. These were among the first closely controlled medical experiments using animals, and constituted "the first purely scientific research in the history of plastic surgery" (Garrison-Morton). Along with John Hunter's transplant investigations in the 1770s, Baronio's work formed the background for Dieffenbach's early investigations into transplantation and regeneration. Garrison-Morton 5736; Waller 686; Wellcome II, p.103.