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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1528

ALFRED ARMAND LOUIS MARIE VELPEAU (1795-1867) A treatise on the diseases of the breast. Printed by A. Waldie 1840 83 pp. 22 cm.

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

Velpeau's Petit traité des maladies du sein was first published at Paris in 1838. It has here been translated by Samuel Parkman (1816-1854), a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and is included in a volume of Dunglison's American medical library. Velpeau followed this work in 1854 (see No. 1530) with a more comprehensive and widely recognized book on the same subject.

See Related Record(s): 1589 1810 1530

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