Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1293

JEAN MARIE GASPARD ITARD (1774-1838) Traité des maladies de l'oreille et de l'audition. Librairie médicale de Méquignon-Marvis fils 1842 2nd ed. Vol. I: xxxii, 451 pp.; Vol. II: 538 pp., 3 fold. plates. 20.5 cm.

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Itard was surgeon at Val de Grâce in Paris and later physician at the Institute for Deaf Mutes. Among his pioneering achievements were the invention of the eustachian catheter (Itard's catheter) and the publication of this, the first modern textbook devoted exclusively to diseases of the ear.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3364 (1st ed., 1821); Waller 5080 (1st ed.); Wellcome III, p. 334