Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1461

JACQUES LISFRANC (1790-1847) Clinique chirurgicale de l'Hôpital de la Pitié. Chez Béchet Jeune et Labé 1841-1843 Vol. I: [4] xv [1] 696 pp.; Vol. II: [4] 738 pp.; Vol. III: [4] 748 pp. 21.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1460

Lisfranc was not a prolific author and this is his chief work. In it he sets forth the principles he followed in his extensive surgical practice and compares his techniques with earlier surgeons as well as with his contemporaries. Speed in surgery, particularly in amputation, was the hallmark of his surgical technique and he was among the first to use the straight knife instead of the scimitar-shaped instrument which had been popular since the days of Arabic surgery. He is well known for his operation of disarticulation of the tarso-metatarsal joint--Lisfranc's amputation of the foot. The University of Iowa Libraries' copy has been inscribed to Martinet (see No. 1458), Lisfranc's colleague at the Hôtel Dieu and editor of the Revue médicale.

See Related Record(s): 1458

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 528

Gift of John Martin, M.D.