Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1608.7

H. (HENRI) SCOUTETTEN (1799-1871) La méthode ovalaire, ou Nouvelle méthode pour amputer dans les articulations / par H. Scoutetten … avec onze planches lithographiées en partie d’après les dessins de Moreau. Delaunay 1827 1st edition. 49 p., xi leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. 30 cm.

First edition, uncommon, of this description of this new method of amputation at the joints, by the noted military surgeon Raoul-Henri-Joseph Scoutetten, illustrated with eleven superb lithographic plates, of which all but one are folding. After a brief introduction in which Scoutetten sketches the development of the technique, the work describes the operatory procedure, and the various parts of the body to which the procedure is applicable. The detailed plates are by Dupuis and Tavernier after Moreau. Scoutetten was born in Lille, and was active as a surgeon during military campaigns in the Crimean and elsewhere, before becoming director of the military hospital at Metz. OCLC records just two copies, at the National Library of Medicine and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

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