Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 809

HENRI FRANçOIS LEDRAN (1685-1770) Traité des operations de chirurgie. Charles Osmont 1742 [8] 570 (misnumbered 580) pp., 1 fold. plate. 19.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 807

Le Dran's popular surgical text was reprinted in Brussels in 1745, translated into English in 1749, and subsequently went through several English editions. The work is broad in scope and reflects his wide range of clinical experience in the hospitals of Paris. Although he devoted a significant portion of the book to bladder stones, his specialty, he also covers urology, amputation, plastic surgery, surgery of the head, various orthopedic procedures, gangrene, sutures, and inflammation. The single plate shows a bladder stone and two instruments used in lithotomy.

Cited references: Waller 5672; Wellcome III, p. 473

Gift of John Martin, M.D.