Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1717

AMEDEE BONNET (1809-1858) Traité des maladies des articulations. J.-B. Baillière 1845 Vol. I: l, 582 pp. 21 cm.; Vol. II: 647 pp. 21 cm.; Vol. III: 16 plates. 34.9 cm.

Bonnet was physician to the Hôtel Dieu in Lyons where he held the posts of Chirurgien-majeur and Chirurgien-en-chef and established himself as a noted orthopedic surgeon. The text to this, his most famous work, details the clinical symptoms and combined medical and orthopedic treatment of diseases of the joints. The finely executed lithographs in Volume III illustrate a variety of conditions and therapeutic techniques, including immovable dressings, for which Bonnet was especially noted.

Cited references: Waller 1286; Wellcome II, p. 200

Gift of John Martin, M.D.