Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1038

PIERRE GUERIN (1740-1827) Traité sur les maladies des yeux. Chez V. Reguilliat 1769 [4] xvi, 445 [3] pp., fold. plate. 16.6 cm.

Guerin studied medicine at Montpellier and was chief surgeon at the Hôtel Dieu in Lyons when he wrote the present work. A comprehensive treatise, the volume covers all the common diseases and injuries of the eye. Although his methods of treatment have long since been outdated, Guerin exhibited a fundamental knowledge of the eye's anatomy and of the basic nature of its disorders. The single folding plate depicts a special instrument he designed for the extraction of cataracts.

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 176

Gift of John Martin, M.D.