Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 154

GIOVANNI DE VIGO (1460?-1520?) Opera in chyrurgia. Additur chyrurgia Mariani sancti Barolitani. Excusa per Anthonium du Ry, impensis Jacobi. q. Francisci de Giunta Florentini ac sociorum 1525] Vol. I: cclxxix [5] ll.; Vol. II: [3] lxxxvi [3] ll. 15.8 cm.

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It has been estimated by medical historians that more than fifty editions of Vigo's popular surgery were published. The present work is one of the early editions which, in addition to Vigo's surgery and compendium, contains a surgical treatise by Mariano Santo (ca. 1488-ca. 1550). Santo was a Neapolitan student of Vigo who achieved great fame through his introduction of the so-called "Marian operation" of lithotomy.

Cited references: Durling 4610; Osler 4173 (1534 ed.); Wellcome 6614 (1531 ed.)

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