Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1545

JEAN ZULéMA AMUSSAT (1796-1856) Amussat's lectures on retention of urine, caused by strictures of the urethra, and on the diseases of the prostate. Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell; New Orleans: John J. Haswell 1840 103 pp., 3 plates. 22.6 cm.

The present work is a translation of Leçons du Dr. Amussat sur les rétentions d'urine, causées par les rétrécissemens du canal de l'urètre, et sur les maladies da la prostate which was first published at Paris in 1832. The volume was edited for publication by Adolphe Petit (fl. 1830), a member of the Paris Medical Faculty, who explained that "I have not aimed at reproducing, in the words of the author, the lectures which this surgeon has given for several years . . . I have only endeavoured to collect . . . the ideas which I have heard him advance. . . ." (Preface, p. [3]). The work has here been translated by James Postell Jervey (1808-1875), a professor at the Medical College of South Carolina. Jervey had himself followed many of Amussat's therapeutic recommendations and fully endorsed the book.

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Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 40