PARÉ AMBROISE 1594 Opera chirurgica

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PARÉ, AMBROISE. Opera chirurgica. Latin translation by Jacques Guillemeau. Woodcut portrait of Paré on (:)4v; 317 text illustrations of anatomical subjects, surgical instruments and procedures, monsters and freaks of nature, etc. [12], 851, [29] pages, including colophon leaf and final blank. Folio, 17th-century vellum, soiled, lacks ties; occasional toning, scattered minor marginal stains, lacks front free endpaper. Bookplate of G. N. J. Sommer, M.D. Frankfurt am Main: Johannes Feyerabend for Peter Fischer, 1594

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Second collected edition in Latin of Paré's writings. Guillemeau's translation first appeared in 1582. "Among Paré's most important works is his treatise on gunshot wounds. He is one of the greatest of the military surgeons, and is particularly remembered for his abandonment of the practice of cauterization of gunshot wounds with boiling oil, until his time a universal procedure" (Garrison-Morton). Doe 48; see Garrison-Morton 5565.