Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1469

JULES GERMAIN CLOQUET (1790-1883) De la squelétopée [et] Recherches sur les causes et l'anatomie des hernies abdominales. Méquignon-Marvis] 1819 72, 176 pp., 10 plates. 25 cm.

As professor of clinical surgery and surgical pathology at the Medical Faculty of Paris, Cloquet produced a number of surgical and anatomical works, the most enduring of which is his Anatomie de l'homme (see No. 1470), a five-volume atlas with more than 300 plates. He is also credited with the first description of the central canal of the vitreous (the hyaloid canal). The present works were written in competition for the anatomy chair at Paris. The first gives directions for the preparation of a human skeleton from cadaver to mounted specimen, while the second covers the causes and anatomy of the abdominal hernia and contains a series of lithographs drawn by the author. The work is based on Cloquet's experience with over 500 hernia cases.

See Related Record(s): 1470

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3585

Gift of John Martin, M.D.