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GUY DE CHAULIAC (1300-1368). Ars Chirurgica. Venice: Heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1546.
2o (306 x 204 mm). Printer's device on title and last leaf, woodcut illustrations in text (some mostly marginal staining). Modern calf antique. Provenance: London Medical Society (old ink stamp on title).
Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgica "is one of the landmarks in the history of surgery. With its 3,300 references to more than one hundred authors, including numerous quotations from Avicenna, Albucasis, Rhazes, Haly Abbas, Hippocrates, and Galen, it represented the most complete compilation of surgical material prepared to that date, and it remained authoritative in Western medicine until the seventeenth century. The book's seven sections cover a broad range of subjects, from cancers to wounds and fractures to dentistry" (see Grolier Medicine, p.33). NLM/Durling 2235.
2o (306 x 204 mm). Printer's device on title and last leaf, woodcut illustrations in text (some mostly marginal staining). Modern calf antique. Provenance: London Medical Society (old ink stamp on title).
Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgica "is one of the landmarks in the history of surgery. With its 3,300 references to more than one hundred authors, including numerous quotations from Avicenna, Albucasis, Rhazes, Haly Abbas, Hippocrates, and Galen, it represented the most complete compilation of surgical material prepared to that date, and it remained authoritative in Western medicine until the seventeenth century. The book's seven sections cover a broad range of subjects, from cancers to wounds and fractures to dentistry" (see Grolier Medicine, p.33). NLM/Durling 2235.