Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2014

HENRY ORLANDO MARCY (1837-1924) The anatomy and surgical treatment of hernia. D. Appleton 1892 xvii, 421 pp., illus., front., 82 (misnumbered 66) plates (part col.), 11 accompanied by duplicate outline plates. 30.6 cm.

President of the American Medical Association and a graduate of Harvard Medical School, Marcy served ably during the Civil War with the Union Army. Following the war he returned to the Boston area where he practiced until 1869, when he embarked on a course of postgraduate study in Europe. After studying with a number of leading physicians and scientists, he concluded his work with Lister (see No. 1930) and became an advocate of antiseptic methods of operative surgery. Rejected by Bigelow in Boston because he wished to apply Listerian techniques, Marcy founded a private hospital for diseases of women where he could apply Listerian principles. Active in clinical research, he introduced antiseptic ligatures in the management of strangulated hernia and studied procedures for reconstructing the inguinal canal. The present work was prepared because he felt that there was a need to better instruct the physician and surgeon in the anatomy and surgical management of hernia. He discusses and illustrates a wide variety of hernias covering all aspects of their pathology and treatment. The book is extremely well illustrated from the works of Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Scarpa, Cloquet, Camper, Darrach, Langenbeck, Bourgery, Blandin, Cruveilhier, Guthrie, Gay, and others to whom Marcy gives credit in the preface.

See Related Record(s): 1930

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3601

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