The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Pare, Containing the Voyages Made into Divers Places with Many of His Writings upon Surgery

xxii, [4], 227 pp. 8vo. "Pare was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery (No. 2139), for his revival of podalic version (No. 6140), his re-introduction of the ligature and his invention of many new surgical instruments. He was the first to suggest that syphilis is a cause of aneurysm. He popularized the truss, introduced artificial limbs, and (in dentistry) reimplantation of the teeth." (Garrison-Morton 5565, in reference to 'Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Par', printed in 1575)