Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1697

AUGUSTE NELATON (1807-1873) Elémens de pathologie chirurgicale. G. Baillière 1844-1859 illus. 21.6 cm.

A colleague of Malgaigne (see No. 1685 ff.) at the Hôpital St. Louis, Nélaton was known as one of the finest surgeons in France and as a modest and generous man whose mild personality endeared him to his patients, students, and friends. He invented a number of surgical instruments, among them a porcelain-tipped bullet probe and a flexible rubber catheter which bears his name. The five-volume Elémens de pathologie chirurgicale is Nélaton's major work and includes virtually all of his surgical innovations and discoveries.

See Related Record(s): 1685

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5597; Waller 6830

Gift of John Martin, M.D.