Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
POUTEAU, CLAUDE. Oeuvres Posthumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Pouteau. Half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, late 18th-/early 19th-century 1/4 black straight-grain morocco, flat spines attractively gilt; contents clean except for occasional light dampstaining in upper margins in third volume. handsome set. Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres, 1783

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first collected edition of the writings of a leading French surgeon of the period. Particularly noted for achieving a low mortality rate with lithotomy, Pouteau strongly advocated cleanliness during operations and wound dressing. He noted the transmissibility of surgical wound infections and the similarity between erysipelas and puerperal fever. Wangensteen, page 399.