Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 802

JEAN ASTRUC (1684-1766) Tractatus de morbis mulierum. Typis & impensis Nicolai Pezzanae 1763-1767 Vol. I: xxiv, 388 (misnumbered 188) pp., fold. plate; Vol. II: viii, 212, viii, 96 pp., fold. plate. 24.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 800

The publication of Astruc's Traité des maladies des femmes at Paris between 1761 and 1765 marked the appearance of the most detailed work on gynecology since that of Spach (see No. 391). Like many of Astruc's major works, it was later translated into Latin. Although quite a wide variety of gynecological pathology is discussed in the work, surgical procedures are not mentioned. Astruc gives a good account of the clinical symptoms, etiology, therapy, and prognosis of each condition but adds little new or original material. Astruc carefully read and analyzed the works of ancient and modern authors and provides a chronology and bibliography of medical writers from Hippocrates to Gerald Fitzgerald (d. 1748). At the end of Volume II are two of the author's dissertations as well as his work on obstetrics--Ars obstetricia.

See Related Record(s): 391

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 65 (Vol. I only)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.