Observationum & curationum chirurgicarum centuriae. Presentation inscription to André Bonet.
Publisher Information: Basel: Sumptibus Ludovici Regis, 1606.
Fabry von Hilden, Wilhelm (1560-1634). (1) Observationum & curatorium chirurgicarum centuriae. [16], 298, [6]pp. Woodcut illustrations. Basel: Sumptibus Ludovici Regis, 1606. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author on the title to Swiss physician André Bonet (b. 1556): “Clarissimo & excellentissimo viro dno. D. Andrea Boneto apud genovenses medico celeberrimo d. missit autor.” [Bound with:] (2) Observationum & curationum cheirurgicarum centuria tertia. 557pp. plus integral blank. Engraved and woodcut illustrations. Oppenheim: Typis Hieronymi Galleri, aere Johan-Theod. de Bry, 1614. [Bound with:] (3) De combustionibus quae oleo et aqua fervida, ferro candente, pulvere tormentario, fulmine, & quavis alio materia ignita fiunt libellus. [16], 107, [4, blank]pp. Woodcut illustrations. Basel: Sumptibus Ludovici Regis, 1607. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to André Bonet on the title: “Clarissimo atque doctissimo viro dno. And. Boneto apud genovenses medico celeberrimo et amico singulari d. missit author.” [Bound with:] (4) Pons, Jacques (1538-1612). De nimis licentiosa ac liberaliore intempestivaque sanguinis missione, qua hodie pleriq[ue] abutuntur, brevis tractatio. [18], 115pp., plus integral blank. Lyons: Apud Paulum Frellon et Abraham Cloquemin, 1596. Together 4 works in 1, 8vo. 166 x 95 mm. Vellum ca. 1614, titles hand-lettered on spine, some darkening, light edgewear. Uneven toning due to paper quality, minor marginal worming, occasional dampstaining but overall very good.
First Editions of all four works, from the library of Swiss physician André Bonet (b. 1556), whose son Théophile (1620-89) was the founder of pathological anatomy (see Garrison-Morton.com 2274). Presentation copies of important medical works from the 17th century are exceptionally rare—especially copies presented to known recipients, such as these.
This remarkable volume includes a presentation copy of Fabry von Hilden’s De combustionibus, “the first book entirely devoted to burns” (Garrison-Morton.com 2245). Fabry developed the first classification system for burns and developed methods for treating the various problems associated with burn healing, “such as the application of splints to minimize the contraction of scarred skin and the insertion of pieces of linen cloth or lead foil to avoid the adherence of delicate parts such as the lips or eyelids” (P. Santoni-Ruigu and P. J. Sykes, A History of Plastic Surgery, p. 43).
Also included here are the first and third volumes of Fabry’s famous Centuriae (see Garrison-Morton.com 5570), the first bearing Fabry’s presentation inscription to Bonet. Published in six volumes between 1606 and 1641, Fabry’s Centuriae represent the best collection of surgical case records of the 17th century. The Centuriae were assembled from Fabry’s detailed notes of his own cases and from information supplied by the physicians and surgeons with whom he corresponded. The case histories cover the entire field of surgery and show Fabry to be a bold, skillful and inventive practitioner: He operated on selected carcinomas of the breast, performed one of the first amputations through the thigh, used a magnet to extract an iron splinter from the eye of a patient (a procedure suggested by his wife, an obstetrician and surgeon in her own right), and designed many specialized surgical instruments, a number of which he illustrated in his Centuriae.
The final work in this volume is Jacques Pons’s treatise against the excessive use of bloodletting current in his day. Pons was dean of the medical faculty at the Collège du Médecin at Lyons, and also served as physician in ordinary to the French king.
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