Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1694.5

ADOLPHE PIERRE BURGGRAEVE (1806-1902) Les appareils ouatés, ou, Nouveau système de déligation pour les fractures, les entorses, les luxations, les contusions, les arthropathies, etc. Impr. De A. Labroue et compagnie 1857 1st edition, 1st issue. 83, viii p., front. (port.) xx pl. 55 cm.

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No. 40 of what was undoubtedly a small luxury edition, produced under the patronage of the king of Belgium. The twenty lithographed plates, printed on India paper, are highly artistic illustration of Burggraeve’s employment of cotton-wool with a starch bandage for fractures, a method in which he pioneered. One of the leading figures in Belgian medicine, Burggraeve is perhaps best known for his study of his compatriot Vesalius.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.