Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1324

GUILLAUME DUPUYTREN (1777-1835) Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. Chez Germer Baillière 1832-1834 Vol. I: xii, 611 pp.; Vol. II: [4] 623 pp.; Vol. III: [4] 622 pp.; Vol. IV: [4] 705 pp. 19.5 cm.

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This work is considered to be the publication which most clearly reflects Dupuytren's wide-ranging interests and skills. These four volumes cover a great many subjects including chapters on the surgical repair of hair lip, the classification of burns, contracture of the palmar and plantar aponeuroses, many different types of fractures, tumors, gynecological conditions, infections, aneurysms, and resection of the mandible, which Dupuytren is credited with being the first surgeon to undertake. Volume I contains his description of "Dupuytren's contracture," one of the most firmly entrenched mnemonic expressions in modern surgical texts. In the description of this condition, the author insists that the understanding of the clinical condition must begin with a knowledge of the underlying pathology. It was his contributions to surgical pathology, as well as his clinical skills, which brought Dupuytren his rightly earned fame. These clinical lectures were compiled by J. A. Buet (fl. 1830) and Alexandre Jacques François Brierre de Boismont (see No. 1602 ff.).

See Related Record(s): 1602

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5590; Waller 2657 (2nd ed., 1839); Wellcome II, p. 503 (Vol. I, III only)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.