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FABRY, Wilhelm, von Hilden. Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum centuriae...quorum prius continet centurias I. II. & III. [-IV. & V]. Lyons: Jean-Antoine Huguetan, 1641.
2 volumes, 4o (218 x 161 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece in first vol., engraved title vignettes, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (Some light browning and spotting.) 18th-century speckled calf, spines gilt. Provenance: "Chevallier" (partially deleted contemporary inscriptions on titles, one dated 1642); Vouzan (engraved armorial bookplates).
First collected edition of Fabry von Hilden's first five Centuriae (or collections of surgical case records). These were originally published between 1606 and 1627 in five illustrated volumes of one hundred reports each. A sixth volume was posthumously published in 1641. The Centuriae was his "most important work; it was the best collection of case-records available for many years. Among other things, Fabricius used a magnet to extract an iron splinter from the eye--an idea suggested to him by his wife--and he described the first field-chest of drugs for army use. He was the first to remove a gallstone from a living patient (1618)" (Garrison-Morton 5570). Norman 754. (2)
2 volumes, 4o (218 x 161 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece in first vol., engraved title vignettes, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (Some light browning and spotting.) 18th-century speckled calf, spines gilt. Provenance: "Chevallier" (partially deleted contemporary inscriptions on titles, one dated 1642); Vouzan (engraved armorial bookplates).
First collected edition of Fabry von Hilden's first five Centuriae (or collections of surgical case records). These were originally published between 1606 and 1627 in five illustrated volumes of one hundred reports each. A sixth volume was posthumously published in 1641. The Centuriae was his "most important work; it was the best collection of case-records available for many years. Among other things, Fabricius used a magnet to extract an iron splinter from the eye--an idea suggested to him by his wife--and he described the first field-chest of drugs for army use. He was the first to remove a gallstone from a living patient (1618)" (Garrison-Morton 5570). Norman 754. (2)