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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1525

ALFRED ARMAND LOUIS MARIE VELPEAU (1795-1867) Nouveaux éléments de médecine opératoire. J.-B. Baillière 1839 2nd ed. 32 pp., 22 plates. 31.3 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1521

First published in 1832, this atlas of surgery and its accompanying massive three-volume text (not present) was, in its time, the best French work on the subject. It was translated into Italian in 1834 and into English the following year.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5592 (1st ed., 1832); Waller 9850

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