Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 257

PIERRE FRANCO (ca. 1505-1561) Chirurgie de Pierre Franco de Turriers en Provence, composée en 1561. Félix Alcan 1895 Nouvelle éd. [6] clxiv [2] 382 pp., illus. 27.2 cm.

Franco, an itinerant lithotomist, was one of the most skilled and original surgeons of the sixteenth century. He published his most famous work, Traité des hernies, at Lyons in 1561. Franco adhered to Galenic precepts and among the subjects he dealt with were bladder stone, venereal disease, obstetrics, inflammation, wounds, and eye diseases. This modern edition of Franco's work has been edited by the noted French surgeon and medical historian, Jules Édouard Nicaise. It includes a short biography of Franco, a history of the French College of Surgery, and a bibliography of the surgical literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Cited references: Cushing F305; Osler 2664; Waller 3220

Gift of John Martin, M.D.