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FRANCO, Pierre (1500-1561). Trait des hernies. Lyons: Thibauld Payen, 1561.
8o (158 x 101 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, 25 woodcut illustrations, all but 3 full-page, woodcut initials. (Upper margin on title-page and final leaf discretely repaired.) Modern crushed red morocco gilt, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, by A. Codillot.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. "Franco was influential in bringing operative surgery back into the realm of regular surgical practice, recapturing if from the ignorant hands of charlatans and itinerant 'cutters.' His major interest was in hernial surgery, to which he introduced several important innovations... Franco was also the first surgeon to address himself seriously to the removal of bladder stones; he gave an account of perineal lithotomy and was the earliest to describe and perform the suprapubic incision" (Norman). The woodcuts show a variety of surgical instruments for the procedures discussed and a series of three full skeletons at the end. BM/STC French p.187; Garrison-Morton 3574; Waller 3223; Wellcome 2409 (imperfect); Norman 828.
8o (158 x 101 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, 25 woodcut illustrations, all but 3 full-page, woodcut initials. (Upper margin on title-page and final leaf discretely repaired.) Modern crushed red morocco gilt, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, by A. Codillot.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. "Franco was influential in bringing operative surgery back into the realm of regular surgical practice, recapturing if from the ignorant hands of charlatans and itinerant 'cutters.' His major interest was in hernial surgery, to which he introduced several important innovations... Franco was also the first surgeon to address himself seriously to the removal of bladder stones; he gave an account of perineal lithotomy and was the earliest to describe and perform the suprapubic incision" (Norman). The woodcuts show a variety of surgical instruments for the procedures discussed and a series of three full skeletons at the end. BM/STC French p.187; Garrison-Morton 3574; Waller 3223; Wellcome 2409 (imperfect); Norman 828.