Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 776

JEAN LOUIS PETIT (1674-1750) Traité des maladies des os, dans lequel on à représenté les appareils & les machines qui conviennent à leur guérison. Méquignon l'aîné 1784 Vol. I: [2] xxxvi, 430 pp.; Vol. II: [2] 574 pp., illus. 16.4 cm.

Petit was the leading French surgeon of the early eighteenth century and the first director of the Académie de Chirurgie in Paris. This, his major work, was first published in 1705 as L'art de guérir les maladies des os and was translated into English in 1726. It is in this work that he gave the first account of osteomalacia and of clot formation in arteries following ligation.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4300 (1705 ed.); Waller 7324 (1741 ed.)