Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1107

ANTONIO SCARPA (1752-1832) Memoria chirurgica sui piedi torti congeniti dei fanciulli. Baldassare Comino 1806 2nd ed. 88 pp., 5 leaves of fold. plates. 20.3 cm.

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After Scarpa was dismissed from his academic positions at the University of Pavia in 1796 for political reasons, he proceeded to write the present work as well as another important treatise on diseases of the eye. He was summarily reinstated by Napoleon in 1805 when Napoleon was traveling through Pavia on the way to his coronation as King of Italy in Milan. Scarpa's extensive knowledge of anatomy is the basis for this first accurate description of congenital clubfoot. Five large folding plates depict the pathological anatomy together with the apparatus for correcting this deformity. First published in 1803, the book was translated into English in 1818.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4308 (1st ed., 1803); Waller 8539

Gift of John Martin, M.D.